"This should have been done a month ago."
"I really do want to have a robust bill."
"It disturbs a lot of people that Barbara Boxer and Jim Inhofe are good friends."
"I hope he actually follows through. If he is serious this time, I am committed to working with him and Senator Boxer."
"I am going to do everything I can to make sure that that wall is not torn down."
"I believe strongly that there are very few forms of government spending that are beneficial to our citizens and the economy. Infrastructure spending is one of them."
"As I think Senator Boxer suggested, ARPA has some facts around that subject, 78 million jobs are dependent on transportation."
"That is 3 percent, it doesn't make any difference, people think it is 90 percent."
"There should be no dispute that the money we spend to maintain and grow our infrastructure is an investment."
"We have to be building the stuff that brings the highest rate of return to our case."
"For me to get something done, you have to help me, and I have to have support out there in saying, we want to get back to building roads and bridges."
"The most important part, however, is that one of the two major functions of Government, and you have heard me say over the years, national defense and infrastructure."
"a rulemaking consistent with the Clean Water Act and the Supreme Court decisions was critical."
"This bill hasn't even been through a committee. We haven't had the debate in our committee on this bill to know if it is the best thing to do."
"Think about all the sources of food we get in this country. And the diverse places they come from and, yet only 34 people get a staph poisoning or E. coli non-toxigenic poisoning or a salmonella poiso..."
"And I'm all for saying let's just not have any earmarks."
"As I see it now, the policy approved in 1993 has worked and I do not see a need to change something that is not impacting our force."
"Now is the wrong time to overturn DADT. As U.S. troops remain in the thick of war in Afghanistan, there is risk involved."
