Political Quotes

“The Month for America amendment will provide $2.1 billion in highway and transit funds to high-priority projects that can begin within 90 days. This will create immediate jobs. Not only will this prevent the project delays resulting from the lack of a 6-year transportation bill, but it will, again, create over 90,000 jobs. We all know we need more jobs in America, and we need them now. This is an emergency for every single individual and every family who finds themselves in a situation now where there has been a job loss in the family. Some people will say that modernizing our schools, providing health care to veterans and those without insurance, and creating jobs is not an emergency. I completely disagree. These are crises in America that need immediate attention. At the same time, when I looked through Ambassador Bremer's report entitled 'The Coalition Provisional Authority Request to Rehabilitate and Reconstruct Iraq,' I found billions of dollars for projects which neither I nor the American people believe are emergencies.”