Political Quotes

“Yesterday afternoon, I stood at the back of the Senate Chamber and watched a critical debate. Under the leadership of Chairman Ron Wyden of the Senate Finance Committee, his partner, Ranking Member Hatch; Chairwoman Barbara Boxer from California, Chris Murphy from Connecticut, Bob Corker from Tennessee, and Senator Tom Carper from Delaware held forth on critical legislation to be able to help America deal with our infrastructure crisis. America--it is no secret--is falling apart and is falling behind. It is well overdue for us to have a robust, important 6-year reauthorization to deal with our transportation needs. We can't do that unless we resolve the funding conundrum. We have been limping along. We can't even get through the current 27-month extension without a summer slowdown, cutting back on critical Federal funding for contracts around the country. What the Senate did was tackle this issue head on. They had a funding proposal that was fairly debated, where they were able to provide enough funding to get us through the end of the year, but not so much that it allows this Congress off the hook to slide into the next Congress, and probably the Congress after that, but instead, face up to our responsibilities now. Mr.…”