Providing for Consideration of H.R. 4837, Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2005

PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4837, -- (House of Representatives - July 21, 2004)

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005

Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 732 and ask for its immediate consideration.

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Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, this is a disgrace. I have served on the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations for 26 years, the Subcommittee on Military Construction for 18 years.

The administration, the Department of Defense, the House Committee on Armed Services, the House Committee on Appropriations and the Subcommittee on Military Construction all support raising this provision. The Committee on the Budget is coming in here and prevailed on the House leadership.

Now, I have heard a lot of rhetoric in this Presidential Campaign about certain votes in the other body where people did not vote for a certain supplemental appropriation for our troops. I want to say it very clearly. The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. It is simply that clear.

I have always believed this House would always rise up in a bipartisan way and get the job done, when it counted, for our men and women in the field. This will be one of the few times in my 28 years in this House where that does not happen because of the Committee on the Budget and the CBO.

OMB supports this. DOD supports it. The President, the Secretary of Defense, the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young). Come on. Let us support this bill.

Let us override the Committee on the Budget.