Jay Inslee: “I appreciate that segue and why I came to the floor tonight to talk about the sad fact that we, and I am from the State…”

“I appreciate that segue and why I came to the floor tonight to talk about the sad fact that we, and I am from the State of Washington, are hearing story after story after story about how our troops are not getting the tools they need to do the job and how their families are not receiving the benefits they need to keep the home fires burning while particularly these reservists and Guard men and women are in these extended duties, and that is what I wanted to focus on. Every Member of Congress I think has heard from mothers and fathers of troops. I met with a group of reservists, wives and mothers and fathers and husbands last weekend, and the story I heard about was of a mother who is a nurse who had to go out and herself buy medicine for the troops that her son, who is a medic in the Army, the Army simply was not providing. She had to actually ship over medicine disguised as brownies or food or something to her troops to get this kind of stuff to them. We heard story after story of that.”