and also gives our brave and valiant troops in perret's, 3.4% this year. this is not a partisan issue. yesterday this bill passed the house 395 -- 34. more than 90 percent of democrats voted for this bill, more than 9 percent of republicans voted with this in the house of representatives. that is because they know that our of fighting men and women and the brave americans have a world away, a lot of them, wage to worse on our behalf. it's immaterial whether the leaders to give them all the resources they need to succeeded are progressives or conservatives. surely our troops were on the plant after deployment after deployment spend more time counting the days until they see their loved ones again and are counting the applicable coal scores by the side -- they don't care most the time, madam president. they just do their job. the house approved and as much yesterday. the senate should do the same today. we have seen this bill yesterday at 2:00 p.m.. are really going to wait until tomorrow to pass it? this simply is not right. how let's get our troops with a