Jeb Hensarling: “No, it went down again on a straight party line vote. It was a very simple amendment. Budgets are about priorities. At a…”

“No, it went down again on a straight party line vote. It was a very simple amendment. Budgets are about priorities. At a time our Nation is fighting this war on terror, it was a very simple amendment. It said, you know what? Whatever figure we decide is the right figure for veterans' funding, and I know you can never give enough, but whatever it is, let's make sure we put a floor under it. Let's give it a firewall. Because too often what we find out in what we call the appropriations process up here, sometimes these funds get raided for other purposes, just like Congress has too many times raided the Social Security fund. So this was a simple amendment that said we are going to put a firewall around veterans' spending, and the number that we put in the budget is sacrosanct. Every single Democrat on the Budget Committee voted against that amendment. They voted against veterans. It was not a proud day for the institution.”