Political Quotes

“I will be brief. All of us here have the honor to serve in the people's House, and we are here to serve our constituents--the people who send us here from all over the country--and also to serve in the best interests of our great Nation. I had a constituent who approached me. I happened to be touring the business at which he works, and he told me something that affected me greatly. His son was just days before his 23rd birthday. He was a student at the University of Cincinnati. He was coming down Interstate 75 in a minivan and was minding his own business. I don't know what he was thinking about, but he had his whole future ahead of him. But a completely avoidable accident occurred. A wheel that was so rusted broke free from a big rig, and it crossed the median. It struck the vehicle he was in, and it killed him immediately, a couple of days before his 23rd birthday. It had been a couple of years, but his father was still very emotional about this, understandably so. We looked into this situation. We talked with a number of our colleagues and did a lot of research on it and worked with the American Trucking Association and with America's Independent Truckers' Association as well. We came up with an amendment to this particular bill that we are discussing here this evening, the transportation bill.…”