On the recordSeptember 15, 2016
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 30 seconds before yielding to Mr. Nadler. I want to make clear; I represented Joint Base Lewis-McChord for 16 years, until 2012, and wrote hundreds of sympathy cards to family members who lost loved ones from that base in Afghanistan and Iraq, and I will take the backseat to no one in terms of respecting what they did, how they fought, and what they sacrificed, making sure that we do everything we can to protect them and give them the tools they need to protect our country and protect themselves. I thank the Republicans for working in a bipartisan manner on that issue. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler).
