Kim Reynolds: “Mr. Speaker, I respect the gentleman and what his view is, but I come from a State that has some complex transportation…”

“Mr. Speaker, I respect the gentleman and what his view is, but I come from a State that has some complex transportation, from new to old aging infrastructure, to mass transit, to ports, to motor carriers, to dealing with buses and transit systems. As I look at this, if we keep this moving forward by passing this extender, we are going to keep those projects moving forward to protect jobs. A 'no' vote puts people out of work. It stops transit. I have taken great care to listen to the transportation experts, and they assure me of the following. We came here with such great spirit in the House to pass this legislation, and it was bipartisan work. We certainly lauded both the chairman of the full Committee of Transportation and Infrastructure and the subcommittee chairs who put together this complex bill and in a bipartisan fashion. Yes, there certainly are differences of agreement to different aspects of what I see in the other body just from public statements of negotiation.”