Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, so here we are. I am down on the floor with my good friend, Frank Pallone, who I am a fan of. And, actually, I am a fan of Jeff Carroll, which probably surprises a lot of people. What we are doing here today, and they know it, just goes too far. Here we are, on a transportation and infrastructure bill, debating energy and telecommunications and healthcare issues. The preeminent committee in Washington, D.C., is the Energy and Commerce Committee. I proudly served on it for 24 years. We take pride in that. But here, today, we have allowed leadership to take our jurisdiction and give it to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. There are a lot of Committee on Energy and Commerce chairmen and ranking members who are rolling over in their graves today, and I am particularly disappointed. The original bill that came out of T&I, it is right here, $500 billion. This is the bill that came out of T&I. The bill that we are debating today, $1.5 trillion. Where did the trillion come from? Well, it came from the Rules Committee, Mr. Speaker, which added bills from other jurisdictions that had no hearings, no markups, no process. In fact, I see my good friend Mr. Doyle here, and I wrote down what he said: There ought to be a deliberative discussion on that provision. I think it was on autonomous vehicles.…”