Political Quotes

“I thank the ranking member for the time. Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman of this committee and the ranking member of the full committee and I thank the chairman of the Defense Appropriations Committee. There may be no other Member that has as much respect as I have in working with the chairman of the Defense Subcommittee, and I thank him for his service. All of us want to be helpful to the men and women that we care about who rise up and serve us, whatever call, as civilian soldiers. So today I want to offer a solution. Rather than this bill, I would like for our leadership, the Speaker, to bring to the floor a clean bill to open the government. I want my National Guard in Texas--1,900 of them--to be able to be paid. But I also want their families to have the Affordable Care Act, and I also want to make sure that they have infrastructure, maintenance of existing equipment, and procurement of new equipment, research and development, facilities maintenance, commissaries in the United States. I hear that there are 20 or 30 or 40 Republicans ready to vote on a bill that will open the government. Let's open the government to serve our National Guard. {time} 1300”