as chairman of the Senate Veterans Committee I want to thank of many many people for helping me %HESITATION

of veterans as they leave service to this country.

crisp what I have learned since I've been chairman of the Veterans Committee is the cost of war is much deeper and

last year I was chairman of the %HESITATION veteran's affairs committee so I you know work within the Democratic

of funding has to be offset and that's what the Veterans Committee as we are authorizing committee on

threatened we will act as the former chairman of the veteran's committee I can tell you the people do not fully understand the cost of I

Vietnam veterans of America paralyzed veterans of America the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans of America gold

need to protect and defend the veterans of this country and their family those

approve or disapprove of these recommendations another word the Veterans Committee and authorize committee has made a recommendation the

obligation to list so what the veterans of Americans there to veterans of our country was saying about

the house that now in the Senate on the ranking member on the budget committee former chairman of the veteran's committee where we work very hard for veterans right all

of party so Mister chairman I you're a good chairman this committee will get over this aberration and we'll get back to doing business and

dollars i'm chairman of the senate committee on veterans affairs we are five hundred thousand young men and women who've

what we do not and this president I had hoped from the bottom of my heart that at least on this issue the

two i was the chairman of the house budget committee in one of the chief architects the last time we balanced the budget and

so does virtually every veterans organization in the country representing millions of veteran a