Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, I, too, share a position of working well with my colleague as the ranking member of the Military Personnel Subcommittee. I just feel that he is not appreciating, with all due respect, what this amendment does. We already say that women, peace, and security should be part of it. That was something that was signed by President Trump, and it was bipartisan then. It is something that has also been embraced by President Biden. This is only looking at the fact that very few women in the military of our allies have been participating in this program. This program exists to provide military education and training to our allies, and we are talking about only 6 to 8 percent of them being women who are participating. This is an analysis. That is all this amendment does is analyze whether or not we have promoted this properly to encourage our allies to have servicewomen in their countries participate. We do know that when you have women in the military, it adds to our success. It does not degrade it. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.”