Political Quotes

“Today many people in the Chamber came to work extremely early. The reason is they wanted to avoid being stuck in traffic. They got up early in the morning. They came to work earlier than they were required to come to work because they were afraid of being late for work because of the traffic jams in the Washington, DC, area. You may say, well, Washington is a unique place. But it is the same in Las Vegas, Reno, or anyplace else in our country. We have traffic jams, highway problems, too few mass transit systems, and those we do have need renovation and replenishment. To mention a road in Las Vegas or here on the capital beltway as being a place to stay away from during rush hour, certainly everybody understands that. Is there going to be an accident in the morning? Maybe there was an accident. Maybe it is just routine congestion that creates difficult problems. People sit, losing precious time they could be spending with their families or getting to work and getting things done. But they are stuck in traffic. As the Senator from New Jersey and I have talked about on the floor of the Senate a lot of times, the price of gasoline is tremendous. You sit there with your car idling, wasting precious fuel. In Nevada, there are places now where you are paying $2.70 a gallon for gasoline. People are locked in these traffic jams that are unbelievably difficult.”