Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to state my intention to include the Afghan Adjustment Act as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. This involved years of work. This bipartisan legislation is led with Senator Graham, along with Senators Coons, Moran, Blumenthal, Murkowski, Shaheen, Wicker, Durbin, Tillis, and Mullin. Those are just the people who are cosponsoring this bill; and there are many others who are supporting it on both sides of the aisle. What is this about? Well, it is about our national security. It is about a covenant--a covenant--that we have made and we must keep to those who stand with us on the battlefield. This bill does right by Afghans who worked alongside our troops and shows the world that the United States of America, when we make a promise, we keep it. Nearly 80,000 Afghans who sought refuge in our country are currently in limbo. In just the last few weeks, one of them who was a translator for our military, who was working two jobs to support his family, who was living in legal limbo, was murdered--murdered--in the middle of the night working as a Lyft driver. Is that keeping our covenant? Is that keeping our promise? Many of these people are those who risked their own lives and their family's safety to protect our servicemembers. That is why this bill is so strongly supported by the American Legion, by the VFW; and that is why it has gotten support from people on both sides of the aisle. These are people who are in our country right now.…”