Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman, and I thank the manager of this legislation. I thank our chairman, our ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, for his consistent diligence on acting on behalf of the men and women in the United States military, and certainly those who have already served. I, for one, will associate myself with the disappointment of the offset that has been offered in this legislation. No one likes sequester. I will add an additional point of contention is that this Nation is not broke. Economists have said over and over again that we are not broke. We can fully fund and should fund our military as it relates to preparedness. That is part of protecting the homeland, which I serve on the Homeland Security Committee. {time} 1415 Then of course we all have tried to deliberate on what we can do best for our doctors under what we call the SGR, or the doctor fix. Let me just say this as I rise to support this legislation, because I do come from Texas, and I do interact with veterans across the Nation and others. As painful as the extending out of the sequester to 2024 was, I just want to offer this thought. First of all, as I have argued--and I hope maybe the light will come on that we are not broke, that we will rid ourselves of the sequester and begin to budget fully to provide investment in our people.…”