Joe Scarborough: “I, too, want to stand up and echo some comments that were said earlier about how important this military construction…”

“I, too, want to stand up and echo some comments that were said earlier about how important this military construction budget is, and how important it is that we do first things first and take care of the men and women who have been taking care of our country. I have toured bases across the country, and I have seen, unfortunately, that funding for quality of life issues is woefully inadequate. I wish this entire debate could be concerned around that, because we could talk not only for an hour but we could talk for days about the importance of taking care of the men and women in uniform that protect and defend this country, and have done so honorably for some time. Regrettably, the subject has been changed. It has been changed time and time again. Regrettably, some people may believe that there is a cynical reason why the subject continues to be changed. It continues to be changed because those that claim to want to change the law cannot even follow the laws that are already in practice.”