Chris Murphy: “how we treat those who serve this country abroad in our Armed Forces says a lot about this Nation. The greatest gift…”

“how we treat those who serve this country abroad in our Armed Forces says a lot about this Nation. The greatest gift that we can give to those men and women who are returning to the United States from Iraq and Afghanistan and the fields of battle is an education with the passage of the new GI Bill. When I went to Iraq last year, the troops said this version of the same thing to myself and the five others that traveled there. They said, Don't forget about us when we come back home. With the passage of the new GI Bill, we can make good on that promise that we all made to those troops on our visits there. I hope that Senator McCain and many of our friends here in this hall who have not supported this new GI Bill, who have not supported extending benefits to the troops as they return, to give them an education for a lifetime, will remember that you can't just go there and tell them that you support them, you have to come to this floor and to the floor down the hall and do it.”