Joe Cunningham: “first of all, it is important when a person is gone, either men or women, from their families, knowing that their…”

“first of all, it is important when a person is gone, either men or women, from their families, knowing that their families are taken care of is very, very important; knowing that the financial burdens are taken care of; that their children are able to go to school and get a good education or, in the case something I oppose what the President is doing is reducing impact aid, which I think is wrong, and we are going to rectify that in this body. But they want to know that everything is okay back home. I cannot tell my colleague how stressful it is for a sailor on an aircraft carrier to learn that his wife has gone into indebtedness or has problems with the children; and he cannot be there to take care of them, and tax relief for families, especially in the military that are forced to uproot every 2 years, that cannot make an investment, that have to take their children out of schools and put them into a new school or the spouse cannot get a job because an employer will not hire her if she is only there for a short time. This kind of tax relief helps put money in their pockets to resolve some of these issues.”