Jay Rockefeller: “Mr. President, the Craig amendment would cut $10.5 billion in veterans' funds in the budget resolution. No. 2, the Craig…”

“Mr. President, the Craig amendment would cut $10.5 billion in veterans' funds in the budget resolution. No. 2, the Craig amendment still allows the money to be cut and then to reauthorize--as he says, we will do a study for a year-- incidentally, by the same people, a study by exactly the same people who came up with this solution, to cut the money. But in order to reauthorize the veterans' disability benefit, the Congress--everything would then be subject to PAYGO, and my colleagues had better understand that Congress would then have to cut off another veterans' benefit. So this is a blind path that we are going down. A vote in favor of the Craig amendment is a vote to shift $10.5 billion away from disabled veterans.”