Political Quotes

“Mr. Blumenauer, you are bringing about a very important piece of legislation that will help us finance the systems that we need to build. We talk about immediate jobs. In talking about those immediate jobs, for every dollar that we would invest in transportation infrastructure, you get $1.59 of economic growth immediately back. Mr. Blumenauer, I know you have to go. You have another meeting. Thank you very much for bringing this critical issue to our attention. Now let me carry on for a few seconds about the infrastructure issue. If we make that critical investment, if we follow the leadership of Mr. Blumenauer, where we actually collect the money that is needed for our systems and put those dollars to work in America, several very important things will happen in the American economy. First of all, you lay down the foundation for immediate and future economic growth. You cannot grow the economy if you cannot move goods, services, and people across the Nation. In my State of California, we understand what gridlock is. We have got gridlock here in Congress. That is political gridlock. In California, when you are talking about gridlock, you are talking about sitting on a freeway and going nowhere; you are talking about the shipments of goods in and out of the ports that are delayed because they cannot get to the rail systems. They cannot get to the highways of America because of gridlock at the ports.…”