have been at war for twelve year we have spent trillions of dollars because I'm chairman of the Senate committee on veteran's affairs we

have five hundred thousand young men and women who've come out home home with PTSD NCB I what

me now is a sponsor of that veterans build the chair of the Senate committee on Veterans Affairs senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont senator

more significant I think most people not we're talking about hundreds of thousands of young men and women coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan with

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

men and women many came home without legs and arms and eyesight five hundred thousand of

million five hundred and forty thousand dollars now I'm not doing that

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

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

one of you will see a young voters one of hundreds of thousands of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan what

the hearts and souls of the veterans of this country as chairman of the committee I thought it was my

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

secretary of state so he was speaking for about two hundred thousand dollars an hour and then he began speaking for five hundred thousand dollars an hour for

maneuvers in the back and forth this is different this is hundreds of thousands of

the veteran's committee I can tell you the people do not fully understand the cost of I mean it's not just that we lost sixty seven hundred brave men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan it's the five hundred thousand can PTSD

troops getting caught our young people can include Ottawa I'm chairman of the veteran's committee I have seen what the war in Iraq has done the