Political Quotes

“I want to appeal to all of my colleagues to pay attention to what is at stake right now. We are going to be asked by the gentleman from Michigan and several other folks to go with a motion to recommit and basically open up this entire bill and put off this entire bill. That means that we have to tell those men and women in uniform, including the people that are still in the Navy which is 18,000 sailors short, that they have to wait on a 4.8 percent pay increase. We have to tell the people who are not able to fly their planes in the top gun school because they have a lack of engines that that may be put off for a while. We have to tell the people that are waiting for a full ammo supply in the Army where they are $3.5 billion short of basic ammo that they are going to have to wait. We are going to have to tell the Marines, the 911 force, they are going to have to wait and maybe we really do not want to pass this bill today. This bill is the bare minimum and it is a mandatory necessity in this dangerous world to start to rebuild national defense.”