Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chair, I will take this opportunity on the last en bloc package to give my closing remarks on the bill. We do have a few more amendments to go, but this will be the last opportunity to speak about the broad issues surrounding the bill. The first thing I will do is thank Chairman Rogers, his staff, and the entire team on the Armed Services Committee for the work that they have done in pulling this bill together. As we often lay out from the beginning of the process in committee, there were well over a thousand amendments offered in committee, well over a thousand amendments offered to the Rules Committee that we all had to sort through to try to produce a piece of legislation. Coming out of committee, we produced an outstanding piece of legislation. I think even on the floor and even where we are at right now, this is a very, very good bill. The chairman, Mr. Rogers, deserves an immense amount of credit for getting us to the point where we have a very good bill that deals with a lot of incredibly important issues. Most notably, as we have mentioned, this is a piece of legislation that does the most to help support the men and women who serve in the military and their families out of any piece of legislation that I have ever worked on. I thank Don Bacon and Chrissy Houlahan and all of the members of the Quality of Life Panel that really did a deep dive to figure out what our servicemembers and their families need.…”