Steve Buyer: “I made some mistakes. We should have indexed the premiums on TRICARE for the gray area retirees.”

I end with this: Tolerance does not require a moral equivalency. Think about it. This is a bad thing to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

I have never done this before on the House floor with anyone in my 18 years, but I am going to ask this of Chairman Filner: Would the gentleman ask that this legislation be pulled from the floor at this time so we may work out the details…

I only wish your conference had made you chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, I really do, because you and I could have done a lot of great things together. In reality, the unwritten history will be the success of the committee…

It should not be lost on the committee that of the five commissioners, all of us have had military service, we are military retirees, we have served this Nation in war and in peace.