On the recordDecember 19, 2018
I wish to close by thanking my colleagues, Senator Duckworth and Senator Baldwin, and say that I would like to end this session on a positive note. I am going to be proud to yield to one of my very good friends and one of our most distinguished colleagues, Senator Shelby from Alabama, who has done such important work on appropriations and our budget. I thank him for it. I hope that in the next session, this great body will see it in its heart, as well as mind and conscience, to do the right thing--not sometime in the next 2 years but in the first days and weeks so that these veterans have simple justice. I will champion it. I know colleagues on the other side of the aisle will join us, and we can get it done. We must. Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama. ____________________
