Gus Bilirakis actually said...

"if it looks like a quack--a duck--and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck."

"It saddens me that we must be here today, and it saddens me to hear the stories of how school closures have continued to impact student veterans' dreams of earning their degree."

"We must do what we can to limit the impact of these closures on student veterans and taxpayers."

"I am convinced that once appropriate mandatory offsets are identified, we should provide full restoration of entitlement to students whose school closed in the middle of the semester."