Elizabeth Furse: “Members of this Congress are hired to do a job. We are not hired to get reelected. When one is in the majority, one of…”

“Members of this Congress are hired to do a job. We are not hired to get reelected. When one is in the majority, one of the jobs they have to do is, they have to get bills to the floor on time. Now there are few things more important to Americans than the quality of the water they drink. In my hometown, Portland, OR has worked very hard to get safe drinking water, but the job of the Congress is to take care of the details. It is to see that our work gets down on time, an the devil is in the details. Unfortunately, the Republican leadership took so long to get this bill to the floor that we have lost, we have lost $275 million for projects. Why? Why was there this delay? Well, I would think it is politics. Oregon, my home State, has lost as a real consequence $10.5 million. I would say let us not worry about pork projects for people who maybe need to get reelected. Let us rather worry about clean drinking water for the people who live in this country, our American citizens.”