Mr. President, I have come to the floor today following on the speech just delivered by Senator Boxer, who highlighted her concern about a manufactured crisis--the impending expiration of the highway bill, which must be reauthorized by…

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Several of you said things that reminded me of a sad chapter in our State last week when we buried the son of Joe Biden and Jill Biden.

It is a pleasure to meet all of you and to welcome you here today.

We are dealing right now with domestic enemies, enemies that have no intention of respecting the Whistleblower Act.

Treat other people the way we want to be treated, the most important rule of all.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union.

The Military Whistleblower Protection Act is the lowest common denominator in the U.S. Code for accountability through whistleblower protection.

Just do it. Not the easy thing, not the expedient thing, what is the right thing to do.

Nobody is entitled to say, 'Well, forget about it. It is the government's money.' No. It is my money. It is your money.

There is some outstanding legislation which is the Service Members Justice Act, which has been introduced by Senator Boxer, joined by Senator Grassley.

Just do not give up. If you know you are right, you think you are right.

We will make sure that that day comes.

If it is not perfect, make it better.

I will never accept that, because what you have done is raise an issue that is extremely important to this Nation.

Again, thank you so much for being here, for sharing your stories with us, and again for your service, past and present, to our country.

I think maybe they are picking on the wrong enemies or the wrong issues.

my hope is that in the future, people in our government, in our country, when they hear the term 'whistleblower,' that it will bring a smile to their face before it brings a tear to their eye.