Political Quotes

“I want to stay that I strongly support this motion to instruct. This is an enormously important program. It is one that the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar), the ranking member, has worked on for a long, long period of time. It is something that I personally am very much interested in, being a cyclist myself; and it is one that I know the gentleman from Alaska (Chairman Young) and the gentleman from Wisconsin (Chairman Petri) also have supported very strongly, and I appreciate their support. But in talking about the gentleman from Alaska (Chairman Young) and the gentleman from Wisconsin (Chairman Petri), I want to once again stress the fact that the product that we have produced out of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is a product that the Republicans and the Democrats shared equally in. We worked in concert. We certainly did have some disagreements. There were certainly some things that we did not see eye to eye on, but we resolved those in a very honest, open manner. I want to compliment the gentleman from Alaska (Chairman Young) once again for the patience and the persistence that he has demonstrated in moving this bill to the floor of the House of Representatives.”