Political Quotes

“on January 3 of this year, 10 national veterans organizations wrote a letter to Speaker Hastert. Those 10 organizations were the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, the Paralyzed Veterans of America, the Vietnam Veterans of America, the Disabled Veterans, the AMVETS, the Blinded Veterans Association, the Jewish War Veterans, and the Noncommissioned Officers. Why did these 10 groups write a letter to Speaker Hastert? They wrote this letter because they were concerned that rumors were spreading throughout this Chamber and across Capitol Hill that the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, a Republican, the chairman of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs that had been there for 4 years, this man had served on the Committee on Veterans' Affairs for 24 years, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), the rumor was spreading that Chairman Smith was going to be replaced as the Chair of the VA Committee and that someone else would be put in that position.”