Daniel Inouye: “For the past 30 years, I have been privileged to serve on the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee with my illustrious…”

“For the past 30 years, I have been privileged to serve on the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee with my illustrious partner, the senior Senator from Alaska. We have always done this in a bipartisan fashion. It has been so bipartisan that, notwithstanding the controversies involved in the bill, as the Senate knows very well, we passed the bill in the subcommittee in less than half an hour and the full committee in less than an hour and a half. We should also keep in mind that 4 days from now, we will be saying thank you to the veterans of World War I, II, and the others. This is a must bill. I think we should take the words of the senior Senator from Alaska, his words of wisdom, with seriousness because it deserves serious consideration.”