Political Quotes

“I join the gentlewoman in a heartfelt thanks to our veterans, as she speaks about the fiscal stewardship and the common-sense reforms we need to put into these programs. It is so frustrating to veterans in my district when they get the runaround and cannot get a proper answer and go from one bureaucracy to another bureaucracy. To take three programs and roll it into one, as H.R. 4061 has done, that is common sense. We hope to achieve efficiencies and save money on that program and the administration so it goes into programs and we get that money into programs that are so needed and so deserved by our veterans. Again, God bless those veterans. And I say God bless the gentlewoman from Virginia who has worked so hard on these issues. A leader on agricultural issues is the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King). He is going to talk about the agriculture bill and then will return to the floor to talk about what has been done through the agriculture appropriations process. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King).”