Political Quotes

“first of all, I want to thank two really great leaders on the Environment and Public Works Committee--the chairman and ranking member. I absolutely take the chairman at his word. I have since the beginning. Chairman Inhofe has been an extraordinary leader on this issue and other infrastructure issues. I believe him completely in terms of what he wants to get done, and the same goes for our ranking member, Senator Boxer. I have no doubts whatsoever. Two weeks ago, when we passed the WRDA bill 95 to 3 in the Senate-- the bill that helped the people of Flint as well as other communities that have water and lead-in-water issues--I was prepared to go and, in fact, went to House colleagues, Democratic colleagues, and said: I trust the chairman and ranking member. Let's get the bill going in the House, even if Flint is not in it. Let's get it to a conference committee and work it out because I trust them, and we will make sure it is in the final package. Well, the bill didn't get taken up in the House due to whatever problems they had a week ago. Then we began to hear there was not support for Flint in a final bill. We heard, on the one hand, from the Speaker that the CR was not the appropriate place--that WRDA was the appropriate place to help families in Flint. But, by the way, he said: I don't support helping the families in Flint in WRDA. It was the same thing with the chairman of the committee. I know there are multiple jurisdictions.…”