Political Quotes

“I want to thank--he is gone--the Senator from Alabama for finding an article about me in Politico because it is so seldom that any article is written about me. I am grateful that he has called attention to it. He is not here for me to say thank you for that. But he is now on the floor, doing something that no Senator has ever done--holding up every single flag officer's promotion in this country--180 of them or so, now maybe 600 of them. We have the head of the Seventh Fleet and the head of the Fifth Fleet. These are vital offices that he is holding up. He just said: We have got enough generals. We have enough generals. Why is he doing it? Why is he doing it? He is doing it because he is offended by a regulation that the Department of Defense has promulgated in the wake of the Dobbs decision of reversing Roe v. Wade--stripping the American people of this fundamental right, stripping the American people of this fundamental right. In the wake of that, the Secretary of Defense had the nerve to say: If you are serving--through no decision that you have made--in a State like Alabama which banned abortion and you have to travel to another State to get an abortion, we will pay for that travel--travel. If you need a little bit of extra time, the regulations say, before you go to your commanding officer and tell them that you have to have a medical procedure, like abortion, it gives you a little extra time to do that.…”