House Proceeding 07-31-08 on Jul 31st, 2008 :: 3:54:42 to 3:58:30
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Speech By: Zach Wamp

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Zach Wamp: in both the atlantic and the pacific, the philippines were granted their independenc te. and the congress of 1946 said, you go t your independence, you take c are of your veterans. yes, you

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Christopher Shays: saved america, but that's your problem, not ours anymore. although president truman psigned the legislation which embodied that in la w, he said we mustd repair this moralmo travesty. we promised

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Speech By: Christopher Shays

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Christopher Shays: those veterans fullet benefits, we have taken them th away. we have to go and give them back. that was 62 years ago,ye mr. chairman. and that travesty still burns in ti the hearts of

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Christopher Shays: the filipinos who are live and their family --y alive and their family members. m the amendment i haveam in front of the body says that b basically we're sorry and -- but thank k you. and

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Christopher Shays: provides a pension for those brave filipino veterans. . this is a moral necessity to close the chapter ande make up for a mistake that was made 62 as years ago. i know many members of this s body

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Christopher Shays: agree with remedying this moralyi disaster. and yet, we have had problemhas of how we pay for that and how we somehow us e the budget to make sure that we are helping these deserving veterans

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Christopher Shays: whirvle not taking away from our brave young men and women from eiither world war ii, vietnam, korea, persian gulf war or the present conflicts. mr. chairman, i'm tr. ying to figure out a

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Christopher Shays: way to did that. i know the vast majority of this body agrees with me and i look forward wo rking with you towi find a way. i know there are other speakreers on this amendment. i would hope we would

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Christopher Shays: have ad colloquy with the cochairman in a few minutes. and i yield back. the chairman: the gentleman yields back. does the gentleman fro tm texas continue to reserve his point of order?

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Christopher Shays: mr. edwards: yes, i do, mr. chairman. the chairman: does the gentleman from california rise? the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. and before i start, i want to thank

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Christopher Shays: the chairman of therm appropriation committee, of the co subcommittee, the ranking th members on the other side, th chairman filner for the underlying bill that we're looking at and also want to commeend

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Christopher Shays: chairman filner for hiss advocacy on behalf of the filipino american veterans. mr. speaker, i'm glad to have g the opportunity to speak about this important issue today atand to draw attention to

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Christopher Shays: the plight of the w orld war ii filipino veterans. te i rise today to strongly urgaye my colleagues to support the th filipino veterans. these brave men fought along side american soldiers

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Christopher Shays: under our flag throughout the pacific c theater in world war ii and the w united states made a promise to give them, to grant them veterans benefits as they were drafted into the u u.s.

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Christopher Shays: service under president roosevelt. subsequently after the war, congress shamefreully and unjustly legislated this promise away in two rescis sion abts in 1946. nearly one millionly filipinos

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Christopher Shays: who were con scripteond into service were killed in action and many n of them died as they protected the p.o.w.'s who are e our soldiers against the japanese brutality during the baton

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Chet Edwards: deathhe march. i support legislation which will expand benef its such as life insura nce, education and on disability assistance for tens of thousands of current veteranser and hundreds of thousands