Political Quotes

“This is an interesting question about an opportunity for people in a region to try and craft a solution. I have been working with people in Clark County for 40 years, because this has been a serious problem between Portland and Vancouver, Oregon and Washington. The gentlewoman may have noticed that this is a serious problem for her constituents. In fact, they pay more of the burden in terms of congestion and lost opportunity for economic development. I hear about it all the time from businesses in our communities. There is no solution to this congestion problem without either investing money or sending some pricing signals to try and change some behaviors. Not everybody has to cross the I-205 and I-5 freeway at 8:30 in the morning and 5:30 in the evening. What has been proposed in Oregon is to look at alternatives. I am not going to prejudge what it is, but I would notice that there is a yearlong process that is underway, including people on the other side of the river, because we have always worked with Clark County and previously with the legislators in the State of Washington and people in Congress to try and figure out how we work together. We are one region. There are 60,000 people who work in Oregon every day who have to negotiate a really troublesome area. The Federal Government is still trying to pay for 2017 infrastructure with 1993 dollars.…”