Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding back and for going through those items that are going to be up on the House floor next week. I would like to ask the majority leader with respect to some of the things that were discussed at the State of the Union--and I am sure we are going to be talking about a few things that happened during the State of the Union. The President identified a number of items where he challenged us in Congress to work with him on addressing some of the challenges that are facing our country. And he identified some items by executive order that he is working on, but he also identified some items from infrastructure--where I noticed there was applause on both sides of the aisle--to some areas on educational opportunities, school choice--where unfortunately, the remarks weren't received as equally as maybe they should have been--but it also provides us some opportunities to find some areas where we can work and achieve some things that would benefit people all across this country. I would ask the gentleman, first, starting with infrastructure, there is tremendous interest that I have heard from Members on both sides to try to work on a package that we can get agreement on. I haven't seen the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure tasked directly with doing that, but I have heard there is interest from Chairman DeFazio and from Ranking Member Sam Graves in trying to reach that common ground.…”