Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank Senator Tillis, and I understand his view on this issue. I appreciate the position of Senator Tillis, my colleague on the Veterans' Affairs Committee. I just fundamentally say that, first of all, we shouldn't leave town. We should finish our work. We should confirm the Supreme Court nominee or at least have hearings. We should finish our work that we haven't done this year. We have been in session less this year than any Senate in the last 60 years. I know Senator McConnell wants to send his Members home so they can campaign for reelection and spend their Koch brothers money that they have benefited from. More than that, what I don't get here is--we are only giving the VA the authority to provide relief for these veterans. We are treating veterans worse than other students at ITT or Corinthian. So if you were at ITT and you found out 3 weeks ago that that school was closing--2, 3 weeks ago, something like that--and you are a veteran and you have a friend who is a nonveteran, the nonveteran gets their loans discharged, and you as the veteran don't with your GI benefits, because they had Federal student loans and you had GI benefits. It is just not fair to them. I don't think we should ever leave this place having treated a veteran worse than a nonveteran in the exact same situation. So I don't really understand the opposition. I hope we can reengage and figure this out and take care of these 500 or so Ohioans who served their country well. Mr.…”