Political Quotes

“So if you truly want to help the trucking industry, and it sounds like you have personal experience with it--the good Senator from Florida--putting the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would be a great start. If you want to reduce the problems with our supply chain, putting a head into the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would be a great start. If you want to make our roads safer for everybody--truckers, cars, everybody--I would say putting in the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would be a good start. I am going to tell you that the objections of the good Senator from Florida ring hollow. I have heard the good Senator from Florida stand up in committee and stand up on this floor and talk about how the administration--this administration--has failed. Yet that very same person who claims that this administration has failed is standing up here and perpetuating the problems that we have because we can't get Agencies staffed up. This is ridiculous. So you ask yourself: Why can't the Department of Transportation and Department of Commerce come before the committee? Look, we are all U.S. Senators here. Pick up the phone. Give him a call. With this kind of attitude--you talked about the fact that food was going up. Why aren't we demanding the Secretary of Agriculture show up? You said there are small business problems. Why aren't we demanding the Small Business Administration show up? This could go on forever.…”