On the recordSeptember 28, 2010
I want to congratulate the gentleman from Florida on his legislation. He's worked hard on it. As you can tell, he has put a lot of time and effort into this. The only thing I would add is that it's not just veterans--those whom have been recently discharged from the military. We also have guardsmen and reservists who are returning. We just had a brigade return from Tennessee. Of this brigade that has just returned from a theater of war, 40 percent do not have jobs waiting on them. Think about that. Forty percent of those just now coming back from a theater of war don't have a job waiting on them. So it is not just the veterans who may have served the Nation many years ago. It is those who are returning who are still active guardsmen and reservists, yet now they don't have that job to come back to. We had better be leaning forward on this one. I urge all Members to support H.R. 3685.
