Political Quotes

“There are so many pieces to this puzzle. At the top of our Make It In America is trade policy. Thank you for bringing that issue back onto the floor. It is something we constantly need to deal with. We have not talked this last year--actually, since Republicans took control of Congress, we have not talked about the manipulation of currency by China. I know when the Democrats controlled the House, we were putting forth legislation multiple times to address the currency manipulation issue, but there are many, many pieces to this trade policy that are relevant to us. As you were talking about the manufacturing, I put up one of my favorite photos, a Make It In America photo. You have seen my photo here, I am sure, of a locomotive. The American Recovery Act, a stimulus bill which really did work--trash it politically, but it actually worked--there was money for Amtrak to buy locomotives. In that particular section of the Recovery Act, Congress wrote--and you voted for it--I wasn't here at the time, I wish I was because I would love to take credit for this--wrote a little paragraph that said this money must be spent on locomotives that are 100 percent made in America--100 percent made in America--a couple hundred million dollars to build these locomotives. Companies looked at it. A German company said: that is a lot of money, we can build locomotives.…”