Political Quotes

“I am happy to do it, I say to my friend, and I am glad she asked me when we passed this bill out of committee--June 2007. June 2008 is fast upon us. The House also passed it a year ago. This is a long time in coming. You are so right, we all talk about the need to make sure there are good jobs for people. This is a ministimulus package right here. There are 500 important projects that will move forward. This means real jobs, real jobs in the U.S. of A. When you are building a road here, you are building a road here. This is important. It is unusual to see all of these folks team up together. We had a press conference this morning, management and labor together saying: Please, here is an opportunity. There is nothing negative to say about this bill, as far as I am concerned. You may have one or two projects you wouldn't vote for, but the fact is they have come from the Members of Congress who know their districts and know their States. I was very glad Senator DeMint called and said he was pleased with the way we did our disclosure under the new ethics rule, that our committee had set the standard. I was very happy to hear from him about that. He said we did it right, we made it public. Everybody signed on to whatever project they requested--very open, very transparent, very necessary. This is a very necessary bill. I guess I am talking to colleagues who may be in their offices and I am saying, especially to my Republican friends, come join us.…”