Political Quotes

“I thank Senator Levin of Michigan and Senator Warner of Virginia. This is a big piece of work and it took them a long time and a lot of patience and a lot of skill. It is voluminous and contains so much of importance for our national security defense, and I thank them and their staffs for the extraordinary job they did. A word of disappointment before I go into more praise. Troops to Nurse Teachers is a program Senator Warner and I talked about 2 years ago. We had hoped to include it in this bill. We passed it in the Senate, and we lost it in conference. The idea, of course, is to take retired military nurses and move them into nursing faculty positions, because we have such a shortage in our Nation of nurses. For reasons I can't explain, our good idea turned into a study. Let's hope the study turns into a program that brings us more nurses, whom we desperately need. Let me say a word about my vote on this bill. Everyone will have their own reason for supporting this bill. My reason is a young soldier named Eric Edmundson.”