Political Quotes

“I am saddened, I am angered, and I am heartbroken for the veterans across this great country that the Senate is failing to match their courage and dedication and failing to keep faith with them. I am heartbroken for a nation that can afford to spend tens of billions of dollars, as we are doing right now--perhaps hundreds of billions--in a conflict far away, putting American lives in harm's way, causing deaths--six, at least, so far--and casualties in realtime when we are failing to match their bravery with our own. It is unconscionable. A lot of words, a lot of numbers, a lot of fallback to Senate procedures, process--meaningless--the words and numbers are meaningless to veterans who are deprived of benefits they have earned, benefits they have been promised. So I regret my colleague's objection to this bill. I believe he is in a small minority of this body. He has a right to object under our rules. But I would like to offer to him a commonsense middle ground. Even if we don't have unanimous consent to pass the Major Richard Star Act right now and support our combat-injured veterans, let's agree to a vote.”