Rep. blasts veto threat related to vets bill

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Source: Navy Times

Rep. blasts veto threat related to vets bill
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jul 31, 2008 5:54:18 EDT

A threatened presidential veto involving a $118.7 billion House veterans and military construction funding bill is being called a “slap in the face” to veterans.

The White House isn’t threatening to veto the bill that includes $93.7 billion for veterans and $24.8 billion for facilities. Instead, it is threatening to veto all other federal funding bills unless they are reduced by the $3.4 billion in spending over the Bush administration’s request that the House of Representatives is proposing to spend.

“In my 18 years in Congress, this is one of the worst decisions I have ever seen come out of the White House,” said Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee panel that prepared the funding bill.

“For a country to send its sons and daughters to war and then to cut corners on their health care, benefits, and housing when they return home does not reflect the values of the American people,” Edwards said in response to a July 30 policy statement from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget threatening a veto if the bill is not substantially changed.

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