[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3941]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            MILITARY SERVICE IS NOT ENTITLEMENT TO CONGRESS

  (Mr. PERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, recently recorded in political dialogue was a 
statement about one of my colleagues somehow feeling that his military 
service ``entitled him to a seat in Congress.''
  Mr. Speaker, no one in the military feels that their service entitles 
them to anything. I am deeply disappointed in the implication that 
because I served my country, I feel entitled to serve in this esteemed 
body--or, for that matter, to anything. My colleague didn't pledge an 
oath of service to God and country because he felt he would get 
something in return.
  Mr. Speaker, this type of statement not only is regrettable, 
reprehensible, and offensive, but it diminishes the sanctity of 
military service and those who tirelessly and selflessly dedicate 
themselves to it.

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