Political Quotes

“I wish to salute my distinguished colleagues on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Chairman Chafee of Rhode Island, Senator Baucus of Montana, and Senator Warner of Virginia, for their leadership and vision in crafting ISTEA II. I also wish to salute my fellow New Yorker, Senator D'Amato and Senator Sarbanes of Maryland, for their outstanding work on the transit title of this bill and the careful compromise they were able to fashion. Finally, I congratulate Senator Roth of Delaware, for all his skill on crafting the tax title to ISTEA II. In 1991, Congress developed the principles for the first highway bill to mark the post-Interstate era. That previous era had seen development of a nationwide, multi-lane, limited access highway system, as first envisioned at the General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair, and then funded by a dedicated tax proposed by President Eisenhower and approved by Congress in 1956. Those principles were designed to address the fundamental imbalance in national transportation investment, and in so doing, promote intermodalism, improve mobility and access to jobs, protect the environment, increase participation by local communities, and enhance transportation safety.”