Political Quotes

“Yesterday the United States Department of Transportation released a proposal to spend $302 billion over the next 4 years on highway and transportation projects in our Nation. Though this is an improvement on the current pathetically weak investment in roads and bridges, this is not nearly enough to adequately address America's broken infrastructure. Mr. Speaker, the American Society of Civil Engineers gives the United States infrastructure a D grade and predicts that an additional $3.6 trillion investment will be needed by 2020 just to bring America's infrastructure to a state of good repair. Making a real investment, going beyond the President's proposal, is not only an investment in our Nation, it is also an important investment in our Nation's people. Nation-building right here at home can't be outsourced and could create millions of jobs and dramatically lower the unemployment rate. I urge my colleagues to support large-scale investment in America, supporting American people and American businesses. ____________________”