Political Quotes

“Tomorrow will mark, as I said a little earlier, 100 days since the United States Senate approved its bipartisan compromise highway bill in the United States Senate. There were 74 Senators who voted for that. Essentially half of the Republican Conference in the United States Senate voted for that bill. There has been a bill in the House committee. That bill has languished in the House committee for many, many months--in fact, for about 4 months after the Speaker said he wanted to bring it to the floor. It has not come to the floor, apparently, because the Republican Party is divided on that bill, and they don't have the votes for that bill. {time} 1340 That measure passed the Senate 74-22, and it would have been, by the way, 75-22 had Frank Lautenberg been there. He made that statement on the floor. That's three-quarters of the Senate, with the support of 22 Senate Republicans. Americans are wishing that we would come together, reason together, and act together to give certainty to them, to the economy, and to their country. Unfortunately, the House bill that was passed was effectively a bill simply to go to conference. I know my friend--and he is my friend--Mr. Shuster from Pennsylvania will say that in the article that was written, that it was simply ``that House bill'' to which he was referring. I take him at his word that he was referring to that.…”