Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of infrastructure week, which is a joint effort by business and labor to highlight the dangerous conditions of America's roads and bridges. There are currently 69,000 structurally deficient bridges in America. Every second of every day, seven cars drive on a bridge that is structurally deficient. Congress said that we couldn't afford to rebuild the roads and bridges of America, so we only spent $50 billion a year in the last decade to rebuild America's roads and bridges--pathetically weak. We were told we couldn't afford it. But American taxpayers spent $87 billion rebuilding the roads and bridges of Afghanistan. We spent $73 billion rebuilding the roads and bridges of Iraq--off budget and unpaid for. Congress needs to get its priorities straight. We need to put American workers back to work and invest in our infrastructure to unleash the great potential of American businesses to grow the American economy. ____________________”