Political Quotes

“I am here to support Senator Pryor's bill. I am a cosponsor. We were about to have a press conference, and the bottom line is there is no way to fully repay someone who puts their life on the line for our country, but we can do what we can, and this legislation ensures that we continue to do all we can. That is a summary of the whole thing. I have the privilege of being a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, and from day one one of the things we recognize is that we want to keep our promises to the men and women of our military. The strength of the military will always be the people, and they commit their lives to the service of the country. During that commitment there is a lot of sacrifice: overseas deployments, they miss births, birthdays, and countless other hardships. A retiree has spent years earning the benefits they looked forward to and those were some of the reasons they made the sacrifices when they took the oath of office and put on the uniform. When that servicemember joins the military, they look at the retirement system in place at the time, and they began to build their life and their plans around those specific retirement benefits. Those who choose to devote long years and the retirement period of 20 years of service--and then happen to retire and pursue a second career--it gives them the flexibility to move back to a location where they can help out a family member or finally become a full-time part of a family business, whatever it is.…”