Political Quotes

“I would like to join the long list of people commending the gentlewoman from North Carolina [Mrs. Clayton] for bringing this to our attention. Over 4,200 reservists will be affected in their pocketbooks by this. They do not make much money. Most of them volunteered to go to Bosnia. Some of them were involuntarily called up. All of them took a pay cut, in all probability, to serve their country. So it is very important that, where we can and when we can, we see to it that they incur no unnecessary expense in doing so. Mr. Speaker, I want to commend the gentlewoman from North Carolina [Mrs. Clayton] for bringing this to our attention. I want to commend the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Buyer] and the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Bateman] for allowing this to come to the floor today. We are definitely doing the best thing for those people in uniform.”