Political Quotes

“for 58 years, the Congress has passed the National Defense Authorization Act with large bipartisan margins, and I believe we are going to do so again this year. In fact, we must. If it were up to me, it would have already been done by now. People have to realize that this is the most important bill of the year. It is one that we have to do. We have to do it by the end of the year--and that is the end of December--or we are not going to fund our military. I mean, that is how serious it is. I will keep working with my colleagues in the House and the Senate to get this done. I am going to say that again because there is an ugly rumor out there to the contrary. We are still working to get a comprehensive bill done. We are going to keep working on it. It is even more important because of what happened over the weekend. Our brave Special Operations forces successfully executed a dangerous mission to get ISIS leader al-Baghdadi, and it was successful. It was the right call by President Trump to bring down one of the most dangerous terrorists the world has ever seen, and it was successful. It also underscored the importance of the annual Defense authorization bill. There is no better time to pass an NDAA--that is the national defense authorization bill--that puts our servicemembers and their families first than after a perilous operation demonstrating the bravery, service, and sacrifice of our troops, because it took a lot of people to pull this off.…”