Pete Sessions: “I am very pleased to be standing here today with my colleague and friend, Senator Joe Lieberman. We serve on the Armed…”

“I am very pleased to be standing here today with my colleague and friend, Senator Joe Lieberman. We serve on the Armed Services Committee together. Much has been said in recent years about a lack of bipartisanship in the Senate, but there is an issue before us today that I believe all Members agree on, and certainly Senator Lieberman and I do. We need to be sure that we care adequately and generously for the brave men and women who have lost a loved one who served this country in combat. We have offered together the HEROES Act. We introduced it Monday as S. 77, along with 20 other cosponsors. This is an overdue and critical piece of legislation that contemplates the moral obligation we in the Senate owe to our Armed Forces. I am pleased Majority Leader Bill Frist has made this legislation a part of his package of priorities for the year and that Senator John Warner, who chairs the Armed Services Committee, said he will give us a prompt hearing on the issue. No amount of money, of course, can ever replace the loss a family feels when their husband, wife, son, or daughter dies defending our country, carrying out the policies of this Government as they are directed by the Congress and the President of the United States.”