Political Quotes

“I rise today to applaud the swift, unanimous Senate passage last night of the Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act, or the HAVANA Act. This bill will provide much needed assistance to the employees of the Intelligence Community, the State Department, and other Federal Agencies who have suffered from often debilitating brain injuries at the hands of our foreign adversaries. Too often, these injured public servants have had to battle the bureaucracy to receive the medical care they desperately require. I am very pleased today to be joined on the Senate floor by the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Warner. He has been relentless in his pursuit of care for these injured public servants who risk their lives for us, who serve in difficult and dangerous environments. Senator Warner and the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Rubio, and Senator Shaheen of New Hampshire worked with me to draft the bill that the Senate unanimously cleared last night. We are very pleased that the following Senators cosponsored our legislation: Senators Cornyn, Bennet, Burr, Gillibrand, Blunt, Heinrich, Sasse, Feinstein, Cotton, King, Risch, Durbin, Scott, Menendez, Blumenthal, and Hassan. I mentioned those cosponsors to show the breadth of concern in the Senate about these injured employees.…”