Political Quotes

“I agree with what the gentlewoman has talked about, about getting out of Washington, D.C. As the gentlewoman knows, I am very sympathetic; and we will be addressing it in the full bill to try to solve some of those problems of having the ability to get the people out of Washington, if necessary, in a quick fashion. Our biggest goal... is to really address the issues of congestion across this whole Nation. I have had the privilege of being in 40 different States in the last 2 years... We go across this Nation, and we find a tremendous equal problem in every big city. New York, with all due respect to New York, if that one bridge was blown up, you would have 12 million people stranded with no way to supply. San Francisco and, I would suggest, L.A., Houston. So we have a national problem about congestion and the ability to move product and people to and fro; and it is my hope on this committee... we will be able to introduce a bill before we break this session that will meet those needs.”