Political Quotes

“as cochairman for the National Guard Caucus I rise to comment on the process of funding our Nation's military construction needs. The Senate, in the past years, has voted to appropriate necessary military construction funds to offset the neglect of administrations in order to make sure that the defense infrastructure would be adequately funded. The Senate this year was again forced by the Clinton administration to make sure that the defense infrastructure would be adequately funded. Active Force infrastructure has traditionally been adequately funded with the Guard Forces traditionally underfunded. Why has it been this way, many have asked, and the answer which is whispered through the Halls of this building is that the Congressmen and Senators will take care of it, and we have and we do and we will because we care about the welfare and readiness of the National Guard and Air National Guard even if some administration officials do not. The administration this year funded the Army Guard to the tune of $7 million, $7 million for the entire Army Guard infrastructure for all 50 States and Puerto Rico; $7 million. For the entire Army Guard Force. If the Senators here respect our citizen soldiers, then they must rectify this shoddy treatment of those who protect us.”