Political Quotes

“I wish to debate the measure, waiving the Budget Act point of order. I would point out the chairman of the Commerce Committee, who has just spoken, is talking about the reckless fiscal insanity in this 1,300-page bill. A good portion of that is the Commerce Committee title, his committee's title. We don't know what is in that title. We have laid out our bill. We have taken it through the committee. Our committee voted on it. We brought that bill to the floor. We have had it out here. We are still trying to find out what is in the Commerce Committee bill. We are told it is very different than what was passed out of the Commerce Committee. We have just tried to make an analysis of it and, as best we can tell, the budget resolution authorized the Commerce Committee to spend $4 billion and it appears the Commerce title before us spends about $6.5 billion. So we hope we could help the Commerce Committee by waiving the Budget Act point of order. Let me talk a minute about why this vote is so important. The vote is on two very important issues. The first is the size of the highway bill--$255 billion for highways, $56 billion for transit. The second is firewalls ensure highway trust fund dollars are spent on this Nation's transportation needs. Last year, during consideration of the budget resolution, the Senate voted 79 to 21 in favor of funding the highway bill at $255 billion, and mass transit at $57 billion.”