On the recordMay 18, 2000
I want to urge the defeat of this amendment. This is not hard. We have made promises to people who have given their productive lives to the uniformed service of this country. This is an attempt to partially fulfill that. The money we are talking about is within the caps. There is absolutely, in my mind, no good reason that we cannot at least partially fulfill what we told people that we would do as a Nation, as a grateful Nation for their service to this country. Yes, there are limited dollars around here. But it is not too limited that we cannot vote for a $800 billion tax cut. This is about priorities. Are you for a tax cut, or are you for doing what we told veterans who gave their productive lives to this country we would do for them when they got through? It is not hard, it is not complicated; it is within the budget caps, it ought to be done, and this amendment ought to be defeated.
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