Jim Inhofe: “I neglected to mention that when we went through this long and arduous legislation initially, there are probably not two…”

“I neglected to mention that when we went through this long and arduous legislation initially, there are probably not two Members of the Senate who are more opposed to each other philosophically than the two of us, Senator Boxer and myself. But we recognize that the process we used is one that is fair. We developed criteria. There are projects in here that met the criteria. Some of them I would oppose personally, but nonetheless, you have to come up with a bill if you are going to have roads to travel and infrastructure to serve this great Nation. I compliment Senator Boxer in working with me on some of the problems I had initially with this bill.”