Political Quotes

“there are many features of this bill. I would like to talk about one, which happens to do with New York City; and New York City, of course, was the focal point of the bombing. Many people were killed. Buildings were destroyed. This is a particular feature of this bill which I believe in very strongly, and I would like to feel my other New York associates would feel this way too. I am not going to go through the details of this bill, because they are quite technical in terms of expensing and tax-exempt private bonds and things like that. But the end result, and I will make this very brief, is that it is going to help the smaller businesses and the people who have lived and shopped and started and thrived in lower New York to come back, and that is the critical thing. Mr. Speaker, 20 million square feet of office space was lost, and we have to somehow bring that back. I know that other States say, well, why is this special for New York? New York was the focal point of the bombing, and there was no point in avoiding that. We must help this city. I think this is a good bill, it is a good feature, and I hope other people will support it.”