Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague Senator Bennet for his work on this and the opportunity to work with him to make sure we continue to honor our veterans and armed servicemembers. Our veterans have served and our armed servicemembers proudly serve this country in Active Duty. When they come home, though, one of the obligations we have as a society and country to thank them for this incredible service is to make sure they have the skills, education, and training to integrate back into the civilian workforce. They obviously have incredible skills which they have acquired during their military service, and we can put them to use here at home. This amendment simply says the Department of Defense and the Secretary of Energy will evaluate military installations to determine which ones are ripe for opportunities to work with community colleges, institutions of higher education, and others so they can enter into agreements to help train veterans--armed servicemembers, members of the Armed Forces, to transition them into civilian life--to help work in the cyber security fields, energy fields, artificial intelligence workforce. In Colorado alone, we have 13,000 job openings in cyber security-- 13,000 job openings in cyber security alone. This gives us a chance to continue our service in thanking our veterans for the work they have done in service to our country. I thank my colleague from Colorado, Senator Bennet. I yield the floor and urge my colleagues to vote yes.…”