Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, as we look at some of the bills that are going to be coming to the floor next week, I know there has been a lot of talk about infrastructure. As we saw over these past few days, there is a bipartisan bill that is being worked through mostly in the Senate, where a number of Republicans and Democrats had seemed to reach an agreement on what would be considered traditional infrastructure without tax increases. It has now become a little more confused by a suggestion that maybe the Speaker has said it has to be tied to a budget reconciliation bill that would possibly raise taxes, which is surely not where we are. It doesn't seem to be where the bipartisan group in the Senate is. I would ask the gentleman: Is there any expectation--because we don't have a budget that has moved through the House, and a budget would have to move first to create the ability for a budget reconciliation bill to move through the House or the Senate, if that even happened. Is there expectation there would be a budget resolution coming to the floor in the upcoming weeks? Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman. {time} 1100”