Political Quotes

“I have the great privilege and honor of representing Travis Air Force Base and the more than 20,000 active service men and women on that base. Their mission is one of supplying the necessary equipment and armaments and food and other materials to men and women that are in the front zone of fighting. They also provide extraordinary support for humanitarian efforts, most recently those in Guam. And they may very well be heading to Chile on missions there. So I honor them and call our attention to their work. Again, I remain really saddened that my colleagues on the Republican side have used this time, and instead of honoring the work of our active duty men and women in the Armed Forces, they are using it to debate a bill of which there is plenty of time. Most recently the discussion about the availability. The Senate bill has been available to all of us since Christmas Eve. Three months to read the Senate bill. And that is a large portion of those documents that you have there on your table. The House bill has been available since November 6. So those two bills have been available to be read all that time. There are about 156 or 160 pages of corrections to the Senate bill that are before us. There are explanations, to be sure. And I suppose all of us would like to see the explanations from the committee. That has been available to us also. This was not done in the dark of night. This has been done over a long period of time.…”