Steve Buyer: “I would first, by the way of opening, say that we need a little truth in advocacy. It is very easy to create a strawman…”

“I would first, by the way of opening, say that we need a little truth in advocacy. It is very easy to create a strawman in advocacy that we then get to knock down. So the allegations of those of us who oppose the Skelton amendment that making some form of allegation that those of whom only support inert and support the President are less patriotic was one of the allegations, that is false. As a matter of fact, I have great pride and I believe every Member of Congress has great pride in the contribution of the citizens of Puerto Rico to freedom, and some of the Puerto Ricans that I served with in the United States Army, they were the sharpest dressed. They had the best looking shoes, the best looking brass, and I would stand side by side with them at any time, because I know they would be with me, or if they told me go left, I know that they would cover me. So stop creating this false advocacy that we have in here, let us have a little truth in advocacy.”