Political Quotes

“I appreciate your courtesy, Mr. Levin, as I appreciate the opportunity to work with my friend, Mr. Herger, on moving this bill forward. It was only a couple of months ago that we were having a press conference in the Triangle with a bipartisan group of Members of Congress, representatives from some of the coalition members that my friend Mr. Herger referenced, to be able to focus on the need to repeal this provision. Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to mark this critical step today. It will pass on the floor of the House in a strong bipartisan vote, reaffirming the bipartisan cooperation that got us to this point. I think that this is an example of what potentially we could do because a number of the members of the coalition that Mr. Herger referenced and that he is entering into the Record are likewise people that have a vision about how Congress and the Federal Government could help rebuild and renew America. The contractors, the engineers, and the architects that we have heard from would also like us to step up in a bipartisan manner to deal with that. There were references to people who are dealing with health care. We still face sort of a health care crisis in this country. We may be able to deal with much of it with the health care reform bill. But many of the provisions that are embedded in law now have their core as bipartisan ideas.…”