Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I too wish to address transportation infrastructure. I enjoyed the presentation of my colleague from Alaska. Her State certainly has some unique challenges in terms of creating a way for goods and people to move around the State effectively. I look forward to hearing the details of her amendment when we get to the Transportation bill. Meanwhile, we are sitting here in this Chamber--both of us--unable to present our amendments before this body because we are not yet on the Transportation bill. Why would that be? Well, apparently, there are Members of this body who have decided to obstruct the normal ability to assemble the bill that comes from four committees on this floor in order to do nongermane amendments that have nothing to do with transportation and to hold this entire body hostage, to hold hostage those on the left side of the aisle and to hold hostage those on the right side of the aisle, to hold transportation hostage, to hold, if you will, jobs across America hostage. This hostage-taking is just not right. It is just not right that when we should be building infrastructure in America, which is right in the short term for jobs and in the long term for our economy, we are instead sitting here talking about the amendments we would like to offer to make the transportation system work better, to improve upon the bill as it came out of committee.…”