Political Quotes

“I again would like to remind my colleagues that the Senate was controlled up until January by their party. The White House has been controlled for 6\1/2\ years by their party. I know the ranking member at the time when the stimulus came out--as I recall, I believe he voted against the stimulus because they were going to squander $800 billion. If they would have listened to the ranking member at the time, they would have put much more or a lot more money into the investment of infrastructure. Instead of that $800 billion bill, about $68 billion went to transportation. So everybody can point fingers at everybody, but the reality is here we are. We need to extend this so that the Ways and Means Committee and the Finance Committee in the Senate can figure out the dollars in a responsible way, not to continue to raise the debt and the deficit, but find a responsible funding level to get us to a 6-year bill, which I am committed to and I know Chairman Ryan has said many, many times in public he is committed to, and our leadership in the House is committed to a long-term bill. Instead of pointing fingers at each other, let's figure out a way to move forward together, and I believe we will. I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, could I inquire as to the time left before we proceed? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Westmoreland). The gentleman has 4 minutes remaining. Mr. DeFAZIO. I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Nolan).”