Political Quotes

“first let me thank Chairman Reed of the Armed Services Committee for his great leadership, Ranking Member Wicker, and all the members of the committee and the conferees for their good work in the past few weeks. So, in a few moments, I will lay down the NDAA conference report. There was a lot of hard work on both sides, and we have reached agreement for this year's Defense authorization bill. It is never easy--harder now than ever before. I will file cloture on the NDAA later today. Members can expect to take votes on this early next week. At a time of huge trouble for global security, doing the Defense authorization bill is more important than ever. The annual Defense bill is a prime example of both sides cooperating on a strong bipartisan package to strengthen America's national security, to take care of our servicemembers, and to keep the United States the leader in innovation. When we began the December session, I said the Senate faces three important tasks: ending the hold on military nominees, which we did earlier this week; getting NDAA done, which we are doing today and early next week; and, then, the biggest and hardest of all is passing the supplemental. We want to get that done as well. It is critical. We are going to keep working. Vote on Motion to Proceed I move to proceed to the conference report to accompany H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act. And now I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”