11/07/2023
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"We have to be careful about falling prey to lofty rhetoric about somehow finding a magic formula, a magic non-political formula for project selection."
"The chairman's mark for the service transportation bill would be a 35-percent cut in funding. That is exactly the wrong direction to be going in."
"It is clear, obviously, that it will take some time to get an infrastructure bank up and running."
"But clearly, as Henry Clay realized, and Abraham Lincoln, and President Eisenhower, and a lot of others, it can't finance all the roads and projects that we need."