Mark Kirk: “more Americans died last Tuesday than in our Revolutionary War. Therefore, I strongly support this bill and commend the…”

“more Americans died last Tuesday than in our Revolutionary War. Therefore, I strongly support this bill and commend the chairman, the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stump), and our ranking minority member, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton), for their excellent bipartisan work on this national defense measure. As a Reserve Naval intelligence officer and a new member of the committee, I strongly support almost all of the provisions of this bill. I would especially like to thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stump), the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ney), the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier), the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) for their support for my amendment, which would allow polling places to be established on military installations. The Kirk-Langevin amendment would clarify an arcane statute that outlaws 'military presence at voting facilities,' hence, allowing the Department of Defense 1999 memo to prohibit establishing polling places on military installations.”