Political Quotes

“I am not going to object, but I wish to reiterate the comments of my colleagues from California, Maryland, and Rhode Island. I know my colleague from Louisiana will do the same. We have a broad bipartisan bill. Transportation and highways are a linchpin of our economic recovery, not only in the jobs they create now, rebuilding and building highways, but in making our economy more efficient. China is building four times the infrastructure we are. India is building more infrastructure than we are, and in the Senate--to the credit of both sides--we have a broad bipartisan bill that moves us forward. It is not everything I would want or any of us would want. It was put together masterfully by Senator Boxer and Senator Inhofe, who are political opposites. The House, in its paralysis--because there is a small group who, frankly, don't believe the government should be an infrastructure at all--ties it in a knot and forces us with the awful choice of either shutting things down because they are not going to budge or just renewing an old bill which needs updating, which throws people out of work. They are creating paralysis in this country in the case of infrastructure and in many other cases.…”