Political Quotes

“Today is legislative day 5 since House Democrats subverted the Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act from being a standalone bill. I am grateful that 86 percent of Congress, 371 Members, have cosponsored this legislation, who were recruited by determined widows in the veterans service organizations. As Minority Whip Steve Scalise noted on the floor last week: Here is a bill that can quickly get to the President's desk, and it gets included in other pieces of legislation that might come months away. But here is a bill where a Member worked in good faith under the rules that were created, and it was unfortunate that the rule to bring the NDAA bill to the floor turned off the Consensus Calendar specifically for that bill, that one bill, which happened to be the first bill that met that requirement. We should work together, bipartisan, to bring the Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act up for a standalone to eliminate the widow's tax. In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget September the 11th in the global war on terrorism. ____________________”