Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today, along with the chairman, Senator Barrasso, to further discuss the important piece of infrastructure legislation that he has outlined that will positively affect the States of every Member of this body. I want to encourage each of our colleagues to support it. Over the course of August and early September, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reached an agreement with our counterparts in the House to advance America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018. Our chairman, John Barrasso, and I coauthored this bill and did so with the help of the majority and minority staffs of the Environment and Public Works Committee over the better part of this past year. I want to take a moment to thank our chairman, as I have earlier, for his leadership. I want to thank the chairman and ranking member of the Infrastructure Subcommittee of EPW, Jim Inhofe and Ben Cardin, for their leadership in producing this critical bipartisan legislation. I want to thank the members of their staffs and especially the majority and minority member EPW staffs, without whose help this bill would not be before us today. Collectively, you have done a terrific job. I am proud of you. As we say in the Navy, Bravo Zulu, which means ``well done.'' As some of you may recall, the Senate's version of the bill was reported out of the Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously a few months back.…”