Political Quotes

“First, let me thank our ranking member for yielding, but also, let me just thank you so much for your tremendous leadership on this issue and on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and for your recognition and hard work in achieving and seeking to achieve an AIDS-free generation. I want to say it is a real pleasure to be with you today and to be back with you today, actually, with the committee that I served on for 8 years. So thank you, again, so much. Let me also thank the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Chairman Royce, for ensuring that PEPFAR continues as a bipartisan effort, and for your commitment to an AIDS-free generation. I just want to thank you for that leadership because, oftentimes, we wonder if there is bipartisanship in this body. Well, I think today, once again, we can cite that when it comes to saving lives, PEPFAR is a clear example of how we work together to do just that. {time} 1645 And, of course, I must thank my cochair on the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen from Florida. I have to thank her for her work on HIV/AIDS initiatives, both international and domestic. I am very proud to have played a role in the creation of PEPFAR and am proud of the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus and our chair at that time, the gentlewoman from Texas, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson.…”