Political Quotes

“Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, I want to commend the distinguished ranking member of our full committee for making this the subject of the motion to instruct conferees, and it is a tribute to not only him but the bipartisan nature in which this committee works to build America's infrastructure, and it continues his vision and the vision of those that worked back with him in 1991 when they created ISTEA and continued through TEA-21 and now moves forward into TEA-LU in that it recognizes that there needs to be intermodalism and there is more to transportation than just concrete, asphalt and moving people in their automobiles. The Safe Routes to School program is something that has worked very, very well; and by expanding it to a national level and asking our friends in the Senate in this motion to instruct to accede to the language that we have included in the bill is exactly the right thing to do, and I give the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) a lot of credit for again making this the point that we are talking about today. It is a great day for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and it is a great day for the Nation that we are moving this process forward.”