Political Quotes

“We know that disabled military retirees are the only Federal employees forced to pay for their own disability. Dollar for dollar they have got to give up their pension benefits in order to collect their disability benefits. We know that over 600,000, maybe some of them are watching today, 600,000 disabled veterans across this country, 10,000 disabled veterans in my State of Ohio, are paying millions of dollars every year because of this tax that we are trying to eliminate. We know that the administration and the President himself, the President cannot escape this issue. The Bush administration has told Congress that if we pass legislation to eliminate this unfair disabled veterans' tax, that the President will veto the legislation. So what is Congress going to do? What are we going to do? Most of my Democratic colleagues have signed what we call a discharge petition.”