Political Quotes

“I wish to claim 10 minutes to speak on behalf of a bill which I hope will return to the Senate today, which is the surface transportation reauthorization bill. I hope we take it up. I hope we actually vote on it, and I hope there are not a lot of extraneous amendments that are not relevant to getting America moving again, creating jobs that result in public safety, a better environment, and people actually working. What I like about the surface transportation reauthorization bill is that, in effect, this could be the only vehicle we have that is a version of the infrastructure bank, a topic on which I know the Presiding Officer has worked assiduously. We need an infrastructure bank. We need to have jobs in construction to build highways, byways, subways, and we can do it, but it looks as though it will be difficult to do. In the meantime, we have a regular order bill, the surface transportation reauthorization bill. This is the bill that Congress reauthorizes every couple of years to do construction on highways, byways, and beltways, and at the same time in the very important area of mass transit, something the gentlelady from New York knows is important since she has one of the busiest subways in America. We have a busy subway called the Metro, and I am going to talk about that in a minute.…”