Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to thank my friend, Senator Sanders. He is a very active member of the Environmental and Public Works Committee. He is focused on jobs, jobs, jobs. He has looked at the green job sector. He has looked at the effect of what we do on the construction industry. I am ever so grateful to him. He also has been a very clear voice for the way to move this country forward by having a clean energy policy, which we are definitely going to be looking at in the days and weeks ahead. We are now at the moment where we are waiting to see whether our friends on the other side of the aisle will allow us to proceed to finish our work on three issues: One is flood control, one is helping to make sure student loan interest rates do not double, and the third and biggest one involves the transportation sector. We all know, whether we are Republicans or Democrats, our focus is on boosting this economy. This bill will do that like no other. In this Transportation bill we are talking about protecting 2 million jobs that are currently in place in this country in the construction sector and the transit sector. So these are the jobs that construction workers do on the highways, the freeways, the bridges, making sure our roads are in good shape and our bridges are not going to collapse because we have 70,000 bridges that are deficient, and we know what happens when there is a horrible failure of a bridge.…”