Political Quotes

“I want to thank our leader for his leadership. None of this would have happened without your leadership. I want to thank your staff. I want to thank the relative respective staffs on our side here and the Senators especially on the Environment and Public Works Committee. I want to especially thank our friend John Neely Kennedy from Louisiana, who has been a great partner, and his staff and other folks on the other side of the aisle. My mother used to say to my sister and me when we were kids, she would say that things happen in threes. I remember she would say things happen in threes, and given what the leader just said, I am thinking about threes and especially with respect to making sure that this planet is going to be around for our children and grandchildren. But if you go back to the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law roughly 10 months ago by the President, we did a whole lot there, you will recall, with respect to roads, highways, bridges, water, wastewater, water infrastructure, flood control. But that legislation had the largest--at that point the largest climate title that we had ever put in a bill of any consequence here in the U.S. Senate. That is No. 1. No. 2 would be the IRA, the Inflation Reduction Act, that was signed into law just last month by the President and championed by any number of folks, including our colleague from West Virginia, Joe Manchin. I want to thank him and the majority leader for their good work. That was No.…”