Political Quotes

You've got to take ownership of it.

I thank my great caucus cochair and good friend, Congresswoman Lois Frankel, for this bill. I thank the chairman for bringing this bill to the floor. I also thank the Speaker for her extraordinary work in this area. I sit here and think to…

we are creating a real incentive for women not to serve and in some respects it is almost an insidious effort to encourage women to leave the military.

I thank my constituents for the greatest opportunity of my life--to serve them. ____________________