Political Quotes

“To the distinguished ranking member and my good friend, thank you for yielding time to me. Mr. Chairman, I am very troubled about this bill. Instead of considering legislation that would create jobs and stimulate economic growth, the House is going to take up and vote on a bill that does the exact opposite. In fact, it has the enormous potential of delaying the implementation of new spectrum and public safety law. Now, I don't know if you vetted your own effort, so to speak, but it was not all that long ago--it was earlier this year--that Congress passed and the President signed into law landmark legislation that implements a key recommendation of the 9/11 Commission. The legislation also made more spectrum available for mobile broadband services. This was the last recommendation that the 9/11 Commission had made. Congress finally made good on that recommendation, which was to establish a nationwide interoperable public safety network. Why? Because on that fateful day in New York, when police and fire went into those Twin Towers, their communications systems did not allow them to communicate with each other, to talk to each other. We finally, on a bipartisan basis, resolved that. Also, at the time of the passage of that legislation, Mr. Chairman, we all praised it. We described the billions of dollars in new investment as well as the hundreds of thousands of jobs that would be created as a result of the legislation, calling it an economic game changer.…”