Political Quotes

“Right. And you look at the supply chain with manufacturing and you see the six or seven or eight jobs for every one job that's created on the manufacturing floor. I love representing my district, like we all do, but I'm in northeast Ohio, so I could do a factory tour a day for my career and not even scrape the surface as to what the manufacturers are. And whether you're talking about the defense industrial base, whether you're talking about construction all the way down the line, auto, the manufacturing capabilities in this country, they're tremendous. Now we see on the defense side that maybe a lot of the defense industrial base isn't in America like it used to be. How do we come together, Democrats and Republicans, and say, well, we are spending this money, why don't we drive it into Youngstown, Ohio? Why don't we drive it into Mobile, Alabama? Why don't we drive it into Iowa? Why don't we drive it into some of these old industrial areas? This can be done. I want to make one last point. {time} 1710 The narrative today is that everything that the government does-- every dollar the government spends money on--is bad. Well, that's the narrative we're all operating on now because our friends on the other side, quite frankly, have won that discussion. But here we are. We can't get a transportation bill because that falls into government spending.…”