Ron DeSantis Teams With Michele Bachmann on MIA/POW Issues

With Memorial Day around the corner, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis teamed up this week with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., to support a bill creating a congressional Select Committee on POW/MIA affairs to examine all outstanding POW/MIA cases -- which currently exceed 83,000 -- and to search for and return the remains of fallen American military members.

This coming Memorial Day, as we pause as a nation to reflect on the sacrifices of our brave troops, we must never forget those who have yet to return home, Bachmann said in a statement on Wednesday. It is our duty and responsibility to the heroic men and women who have given us so much to never stop fighting to bring each and every American home. Congress must look at ways to better identify, locate and return fallen service members or adequately follow up all reports of sightings.

Bachmann and DeSantis, a former JAG corps officer in the Navy, were joined at a press event held Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, and U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio. The congressmen were joined by Ted Shpak from Rolling Thunder, Glen Sidwell from Legacy Vets, and Larry Stark who was held as a POW during the Vietnam War.