Political Quotes

“Would the gentlewoman be surprised that last night in the Appropriations Committee, we marked up the T-HUD bill--the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development bill? And for all the talk about making it in America and investing in infrastructure and transportation and making sure that we can create jobs through those vehicles, will the gentlewoman be surprised that the Republican majority actually zeroed out TIGER grants? Those are the transportation grants that go directly to projects in communities across this country, to help move people around through people movers and investments in roads and bridges. In my district, a TIGER grant was granted last year for complete streets because we have the highest number of pedestrians and bicyclists killed in the country, unfortunately, in Broward County. So would the gentlewoman be surprised to learn the so-called big commitment to creating jobs and investing in infrastructure actually resulted in massive cuts in the very legislation where we would be investing those resources and infrastructure?”