Political Quotes

“I started to comment earlier about the degree to which veterans organizations and individual veterans around the country have relied upon my colleague from Arizona, Senator McCain, to carry their flag in battles here in the Congress. It always personally impresses me when I see people come up to him, as I frequently do, and thank him for the work that he has done or their behalf. It always pains me when either of us--and sometimes both of us--have had to vote against the VA-HUD appropriations bill, which has money for many veterans programs, because of our concern that not enough of the money is allocated to veterans programs vis-a-vis the HUD programs. I recognize that, as a result, this particular amendment is, in many respects, a symbolic amendment. It only takes half of the funding away from these projects that Senator McCain described. And it is a relatively small amount of the money that we believe will be necessary to supplement the funds that have been made available for the resolution of these veterans' claims.”