Political Quotes

“You can look back at history at highway bills and infrastructure bills, and all of these bills passed this House with strong bipartisan support. Seventy-five, 80 percent, 90 percent of the Members of Congress have supported these bills. You can look back, Mr. Speaker. For decades this has happened. Why is this bill moving in an entirely partisan manner? Why is there not bipartisan support? And the answer is really simple: Because this bill is not infrastructure. It is not solving road problems and traffic problems that are plaguing this country. What this bill does is it puts billions of dollars into things like EV charging stations. So if you are an American that owns the 0.6 percent of vehicles out there that are electric vehicles--the majority of which make over $160,000--the great news for you is you are going to get billions of dollars in federally paid-for subsidized charging stations. The process needs to be fixed for delivering projects. This bill doesn't do it. Why is it we are building projects around the country that have been around for decades? It is because the process is flawed. It takes decades just to get a project approved, but don't worry, Mr. Speaker, because this bill fixes it for bus shelters. This bill should be bipartisan, as has been done for decades. We need real traffic solutions, real investments in infrastructure, and unfortunately, this bill doesn't do it. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr.…”