Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding time. Mr. Chairman, it truly saddens me to be here yet again having the same conversation we had last year, yet again standing before this Chamber as a woman, yet again a woman who has actually served and actually worn a uniform and actually was a mother in uniform. Here I am yet again defending our servicewomen's and -men's rights to seek the medical care that they need when they are serving our country. {time} 1530 I am sick and tired of Members who have never served telling servicemembers, the same servicemembers that they are proud to publicly express their purported support for, that they don't deserve the financial or otherwise freedom to seek the medical care that they and their family members deserve and need when they need it. To those who have served in uniform, and most of them are men who are here on this floor, and still don't wish to afford servicemembers the ability to seek reproductive care, I am enormously disappointed with them, as well. We all know how difficult military life is. If a woman in uniform or member of a family who is in uniform says it is not the right time, perhaps, to start a family, or she has a medical reason or otherwise, it is her---- The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.”