Marty Walsh: “We really have to build up our strength there.”

I think that if Congress is going to pass anything like that you need to talk to the mayors because that is where it is going to be carried out.

The president when he put these bills together and you got them through Congress, it really was about the future of this country and the future of cities like Boston.

We need to be collectively working as Democrats and Republicans, to really make sure we are making investments in job training, workforce development apprenticeships.

We are asking for an increase in mine safety work in this budget.