Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend for being so generous in yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of both the rule and the underlying legislation. I begin by sharing my friend from Georgia's enthusiasm for the WRDA bill. I think this was an absolutely masterful piece of work by three chairmen. Obviously, primarily, Chairman Shuster is the architect; but I was also working with him on several important Indian issues and with Chairman Bishop from the Committee on Natural Resources and, on the Flint issue in particular, with Chairman Upton from Energy and Commerce. I share my friend's belief that these projects have been worked through in a bipartisan way. Many, many good things, literally, in every part of the country will take place, and our friends on the other side of the aisle were very cooperative in that as well. This is usually a bipartisan effort. It certainly was in this case. I am very pleased about Flint. There was, frankly, failure at every level of government--Federal, State, and local. I am glad that the Congress is following up on the commitment of the Speaker and of our good friend from Michigan (Mr. Kildee), who has been the leader, obviously, in this and is doing the right thing there. Again, the water projects, themselves, touch almost every district in the country--certainly, every State in the country. I want to particularly point out the Indian provisions in here, which often get overlooked. We did some really important things in working with Mr.…”