Political Quotes

“It is all about jobs. Thank you very much, Mr. Tonko. Your personal experience in the New York Legislature and in your own community brings this issue into focus here on the floor of this House. {time} 2040 As we build this infrastructure, if we add one additional element to the creation of the infrastructure, something that, again, we've talked about here many times, and that is that we use our money, our taxpayer money, whether it's borrowed or directly paid, that we use that money to buy American-made equipment, so that the steel that goes into the bridges is American-made, the cement made in America, manufactured in America, that we use that American money on American-made equipment. In other words, make it in America, so we not only are doing the infrastructure and the jobs that come with it, but we also use that to revitalize our manufacturing sector. This is a very powerful way in which we can more rapidly expand the American economy. I just happen to have two bills that would do that, one for the clean energy industry. If we're going to use our taxpayer money to subsidize the clean energy industry, wonderful. We need to do that for all kinds of reasons, but buy American-made clean energy products, whether it's a solar system or a wind turbine. And similarly, with regard to transportation, the trains, the buses, the steel, let's buy that in America, American manufacturing. I noticed a lovely lady joining us from the State of Ohio. It would be Marcy Kaptur.…”