Political Quotes

“I appreciate the comments of my distinguished Republican colleague. The Senate just voted 85 to 11 to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to the surface transportation bill, a bipartisan bill the sponsors of which, Senator Boxer and Senator Inhofe--an unlikely pair--have joined together to move forward on, a piece of legislation that is extremely important to this country, a bill that will save or create 2 million jobs. There are four parts of this bill within the jurisdiction of four Senate committees. The Environment and Public Works Committee is what we are on now. I have sought to amend that with a provision that is coming from the Banking Committee. We have one coming from the Finance Committee--that has been approved on a bipartisan basis, and we will move after we do those two to the Commerce section. We have not dealt with the Finance Committee provision or the Commerce Committee. I appreciate that the Republicans never lose an opportunity to mess up a good piece of legislation. We have had that happen now for the last 3 years. We saw it in spades last year. Here is a bipartisan bill to create and save jobs. No one disputes the importance of this legislation. Every State in the Union is desperate for these dollars. We are not borrowing money to do it; it is all paid for.…”