Roy Blunt: “I share his admiration and appreciation for the gentleman from California (Mr. Cunningham), one of the true heroes of…”

“I share his admiration and appreciation for the gentleman from California (Mr. Cunningham), one of the true heroes of this Congress, a person who has defended our country, who thinks about those who are in harm's way, who appreciates what they do only as one who has bravely stood there, appreciates what they do, and I appreciate his sense that this is a topic that we need to discuss because we do need to discuss it; and our friends in Turkey need to hear the discussion. We have been disappointed with their actions in recent days. In fact, someone just stood up a minute ago, another friend of mine, and said Turkey disappointed us when we needed them most. I think that would be hard to evaluate when we needed Turkey the most because we have needed Turkey often and we have needed Turkey for a long time, and they have been there on all previous occasions.”