On the recordJuly 31, 2014
yesterday the House voted 420 to 5 for this conference report. They understood that taking care of veterans, as Senator McCain just indicated--the men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend us, who have sacrificed so much--is a cost of war, and in fact what we are talking about is an emergency. That is what the House said overwhelmingly yesterday. On June 11, 2014, 6 or so weeks ago, by a vote of 93 to 3, the Senate supported the Sanders-McCain bill and it was emergency funded as a cost of war. This bill, as Senator Coburn indicated, is about one-third of the cost of what we voted on in the original Sanders-McCain bill. Let us defeat this point of order. Let us stand with the veterans of this country, let us reform the VA, and let us go forward. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
