Political Quotes

“Thank you, Chairman Smith, for your time and your support and your leadership on this significant reform legislation. Your staff has been wonderful to work with. I'd like to give special recognition to Caroline Lynch and Art Baker, both of whom did a fantastic job on this bill. Madam Speaker, I rise to urge my colleagues to support these needed reforms to the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program. The Public Safety Officers' Benefit Act created the program in 1976 to provide benefits to the families of those first responders who die or become disabled in the line of duty. For the past 35 years, Congress has affirmed its support for the program and these benefits. Now we have the opportunity, through needed reforms, to make the PSOB program even better. This bill corrects a tragic oversight in current law that unfairly excludes certain first responders. My inspiration for this bill, Madam Speaker, is Daniel McIntosh. ``Danny Mac,'' as he was known to his family and his friends, was a veteran of the Bensalem Emergency Medical Services. Dan served numerous other Bucks County communities both as a paramedic and as a volunteer firefighter since 1993. He was a volunteer firefighter for the Point Pleasant Fire Company and had achieved life member status. He was a member of the Nottingham Fire Department, a newly sworn police officer for the Hulmeville Police Department, and was a TAC Medic for the Bucks County SWAT Team and for the Bucks County Hazardous Materials SWAT Team.…”