Political Quotes

“This week 64 years ago, Dwight Eisenhower signed the interstate highway bill; and as our chairman keeps reminding us, we have been living off of that ever since. Actually, in New Jersey, we consider ourselves lucky to get to work on something built as late as the 1950s. Many of our bridges and tunnels are over 100 years old and falling apart. This bill will repair and replace that infrastructure. It invests in projects important to the whole country, including our Gateway tunnel, and includes provisions I wrote to ensure that those funds cannot be held up for political reasons. And, yes, it is a different infrastructure bill. It is something new, and that is a good thing. We are encouraging smart highways and materials. We are building mass transit that more people will want to use, modernizing our electrical grid, deploying national infrastructure, all of which will help us win the race with China to build the clean energy economy of the future. And we are doing all of this with the first true economic stimulus bill of the coronavirus era, one that actually creates jobs rather than simply preserving them. I urge my colleagues to embrace the future and support this bill.”