Political Quotes

“I am going to finish this final one, and then I will. This is Col. Trevor Hall, 33 years in the Marine Corps. He served as both enlisted and--a military enlisted and officer. His command experience includes rifle and weapons platoon commander, 3rd Battalion 6th Marines; multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He served with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit. He served in support of Operation Desert Thunder, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Unified Protector--that is Libya. Combat marine moving from Colonel to Brigadier General. That is one more that we would want to promote tonight. We have several others, Mr. President. It is 3:30. I am hoping that, my colleagues, we can continue to make progress. I am committed to continue to work with Senator Tuberville and others on moving forward, but at the same time, we have got to keep faith with these military members. We have got to keep faith with them. Many of them are deployed right now. A number of them are in combat. And we committed to come back down here and try to move these, and we are going to keep doing it. Hopefully, we can move forward with my colleagues here to, as I mentioned, focus on the big issues of national security and readiness, which I believe, with regard to the Biden administration, are legion. I have been fighting those in the Armed Services Committee. The Biden budget shrinks the Army, shrinks the Navy, shrinks the Marine Corps right now. That is music to Xi Jinping and Putin's ears.…”