Political Quotes

“There are so many things we need to talk about. First of all, that $200 billion is simply repurposing existing programs, and they are laid out here. The highway fund, $122 billion reduced, transferred over to his new program, which is really, really strange. He calls it $100 billion of innovation. Who is going to determine what is innovative? Who is going to determine what is going to be funded? A whole new administrative and serious chaos is going to occur--TIGER grants, gone, Amtrak. Mr. Payne was just talking about Amtrak and the importance here in the Northeast corridor. I am from California, but I have got to tell you, I care a great deal about Amtrak because that is how I like to get from Washington to New York City. That is the best way to do it. Airplanes are fine, but, actually, Amtrak is just faster if you want to get downtown to downtown. But not to worry. He is going to privatize Reagan and Dulles. And you think that is going to work out well for us? Oh, if you want to pay more money, yes. Rural air service. Army Corps of Engineers, extremely important to us on the West Coast, in my district. I have quite possibly the highest flood potential of any place outside of New Orleans, and we depend upon this, and yet they are going to cut it by $10 billion. It goes on and on and on. This is just the beginning of what is proposed. It is a massive shell game. The money is under this shell. No, the money is under that shell.…”