Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I actually want to repeat what the gentleman from Pennsylvania just said: This bloc of amendments consists of 42 amendments. All you Americans that are at home right now, your Member of Congress that you elected to come up here to debate, to influence, to fix the crisis we have in transportation and traffic right now, you get the choice to either support or oppose 42 different amendments, some of which may be good, some of which may be awful. This is what democracy looks like right now under this Democrat majority, where the individual Members of Congress aren't even allowed to effectively represent their constituents. This bill, including this amendment, simply adds more money to a bad system. The average American, Mr. Speaker, all they need to do is think about that road project, that traffic jam, they have in their community. All this bill does is puts more money in that very system that resulted in those problems in their community. It doesn't fix it. In fact, it even diverts money from what should be infrastructure into things that have absolutely nothing to do with infrastructure, which, just to give an example of that, includes art. That is where your transportation dollars are going, art infrastructure. Mr. Speaker, this amendment is so fundamentally flawed, this process is so fundamentally flawed, I urge rejection of this entire bloc. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”