Political Quotes

“Today, the President visited with troops overseas to thank them. I want those troops to know we are paying attention to their families at home. Last week, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Children and Families, I held a hearing at Fort Campbell in Tennessee and Kentucky to look at the issues faced by military parents raising children. Senator Chambliss did the same in Georgia, and Senators Dodd and Ben Nelson will do the same in their respective home States of Connecticut and Nebraska. Later this month, we will have a joint hearing in Washington of the Subcommittee on Children and Families, which I chair, and the Subcommittee on Personnel of the Armed Services Committee, which Senator Chambliss chairs. Senators Dodd and Nelson are the ranking Democrats. That joint hearing is to focus on military families raising children. Our military has dropped from 3 million to 1.4 million, so we have fewer people in the Armed Services, but we have more missions; we have fewer soldiers; we have more women as a part of the military; we have more military spouses working; we have longer deployments; we have more military children. As a result, we need to be thinking about the families at home as we think about the warriors overseas. I wanted the full Senate to know that four Senators and two subcommittees are addressing these issues.”