Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to get back on doing my job. I promised the people of North Carolina I was going to help fund the VA. That is why I am proud to be a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. I told the soldiers down at Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune and across this Nation we were going to work to fund the Department of Defense. What I wish to do is see if we can get back to these matters that are necessary and important. They will save lives. They will equip our men and women to take the fight wherever we may go. Today I want to talk specifically about the MILCON-VA-Zika bill that is before us. It is a conference report. For those who are not familiar with conference reports, they are unamendable. We need an up-or-down vote, and we need to send it to the President's desk. That is what lies before us. That is a bill we can pass this year, funding that the Democratic conference in large numbers supported at $1.1 billion when it went to the House. What is that funding going to do? It is going to fund remediation programs to make sure we don't have an epidemic that is spread through mosquito bites. Right now, the known U.S. cases are all travel related, but we are afraid of that threat--particularly as mosquito season sets in across the Nation. It has been going on in North Carolina and the South for several months.…”