Political Quotes

“the leadership of this House should be ashamed to bring this bill to the floor. We are going to vote for it, obviously, because it is better than nothing, but it is nearly nothing. The President said in his last press conference that he would tell the troops, whatever you need, we will provide. Well, it took the President and the Pentagon one full year, from March, when the war started, until March of this year, to ensure that all of our Guardsmen and all of our Reservists had body armor to keep them safe, and now we have Guardsmen and Reservists driving around in Iraq in Humvees that are not armored. They are getting their limbs blown off, and they are losing their lives by driving over these roadside bombs in unarmored Humvees. The only company that has a sole-source contract to provide these armored Humvees for our military is in the State of Ohio. The vice president of that company came to my office and said, Congressman, we can produce up to 500 of these armored Humvees per month, but the Pentagon is only asking for 220. We are doing something for our Reservists and our National Guard persons, but what we ought to be doing is providing them with life-saving equipment, and the President and the Pentagon and this Congress is failing to do that today.”