Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, let me first thank Chairwoman Granger and Ranking Member Visclosky and the staff for shepherding this legislation. My amendment provides flexibility for the Secretary of Defense to allocate resources needed to provide technical assistance by U.S. military women to military women in other countries combating violence as a weapon of war, terrorism, human trafficking, and narcotics trafficking, to ameliorate their impact on women and girls across the globe. More and more, we are seeing that, in the countries where terror is perpetrated, more women are being allowed to be part of their military. We know of the growing leadership of women in our military, rising in responsibility and rank throughout all of the services. As a member of the Afghan task force, which I co-chaired for a number of years, I have seen women leadership dealing with peace around the world. The purpose of my amendment is to provide the Secretary of Defense flexibility to work with military women in the United States, for them to interact with military women face-to-face, one-on-one, as they work to develop security measures that, in particular, will protect women and girls. Women and girls are more subject to human trafficking. They are more subject to being victims of narcotics trafficking. They are more subject to being victims of war and terrorism as they try to protect their families.…”