Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I really would invite the gentlewoman from Virginia to take a tour of some of our privatized military family housing where she would have an opportunity to see that it is not better. We have established some layer of oversight at the military service level, but we have really decrepit conditions that still exist. There are some beginning improvements, but there are millions of dollars in fines that privatized military family housing companies have had to pay because of their neglect. Like I said, encouraging more privatized housing for our unaccompanied servicemembers should be done in a selectful, choiceful way, not just encouraging it to occur across all of our services. This amendment is noncontroversial, and I am not opposed to it. It supports mental health care programs with an emphasis on suicide prevention. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.”