Political Quotes

“Thank you and the committee for bringing this bill before us. There's $13 billion in this legislation for construction. That's more in the last 4 years combined than any 4-year period since the 1940s. And though that will mean transformational things for our veterans, I want to just briefly highlight this afternoon what it will mean for the people that will do that work. We've lost 2 million construction jobs in this recession and the Associated General Contractors of America estimate that almost 400,000 construction jobs could be created just by this bill alone. That's good news for jobs in this country. But we can have even better news if we make sure that the materials used to build those buildings are bought here in America as well. Many of us have been working very hard on reinforcing our Buy America law. This construction funding presents us with a unique opportunity to not only serve our veterans, not only honor our commitment to them, but also grow the types of jobs in construction and construction materials that this economy badly needs. I'm so thankful to the chairman for all of his work bringing this bill to the floor and what it will mean for veterans and for jobs.”