Political Quotes

“first, let me thank Senator Levin and Senator McCain with regard to amendment No. 1188, which was my Hotels for Heroes amendment. I am going to be very brief. Hotels for Heroes follows on Hero Miles, a successful program which allows our wounded warriors and their families to use frequent flyer miles that are donated for trips to military care facilities. I compliment my colleague in the House, Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, for his work on establishing that program. The amendment which was just accepted, which Senators Wicker, Feinstein, Mikulski, Rockefeller, Casey, and Burr cosponsored, expands that program to include hotel points so that family members can use the donated hotel points for housing so they can be near and visit their wounded warriors who are on rest and recuperative leave, emergency leave, convalescent leave, or another form of authorized leave necessary because of an injury or illness incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in support of a contingency operation. I also want to comment very briefly on the other amendment I filed, which is No. 1073, that Senator Mikulski cosponsored. This amendment would prohibit the District of Columbia's National Guard from operating or expanding its Youth Challenge Program in Anne Arundel County because there is also a better alternative already in place.…”