Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, how much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 1 minute remaining. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Well, we have heard the same tired arguments: Over 200 amendments in committee from the Republicans. And today, all day, on the floor: Not bipartisan. It is pretty simple, if you deny climate change and you deny the need to do things differently than the failures of the last 30 years in building 35,000 lane miles and making congestion worse in our 100 largest cities; and you don't want to fund transit; and you don't want to fund rail options; and transit includes rural areas and small cities, which is a new emphasis in this program; if you don't want to repair America's 47,000 crumbling bridges and national highway system, you are proposing $20 billion less than we are for repairing bridges and highways. You object to the fact that we want States to fix things first, and also to look at alternatives to paving over the whole country and causing more induced congestion. You deny climate change. You deny fossil fuel pollution. I hope you don't go through what my region just went through. We have had 50 people die in Portland. No one has air-conditioning there; two- thirds of the people don't. It has never been--it was 45 degrees above normal. This is not normal. Climate change is real.…”