Political Quotes

“I have come today to talk about a couple of bills that the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works reported out today unanimously that would vastly improve our Nation's water infrastructure. What does infrastructure include? It includes the pipes that bring us our water or that take our wastewater where it can be treated. Infrastructure includes our dams, includes our harbors, our ports, our waterways--all that and a whole lot more. When we talk about improving our water infrastructure, what we are really talking about is keeping the promises afforded to every American through the Declaration of Independence. Remember those words: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? The legislation that we acted on today--the two bills that will be combined into one later on, on the floor--called the Water Resources Development Act, the underlying message is that our work today directly reflects those words in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Certainly, none of those things--life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness--are possible without access to clean water, whether it is to wash our hands or to drink. We can't have life without clean water to drink. The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of that too--just how important it is to have access to clean water to wash our hands and soap to wash our hands. We are reminded daily--I would say almost hourly--to wash our hands with soap and water.…”