Peter DeFazio actually said...

"I have got to tell you, I am afraid is a nonstarter with this Congress."

"the additional funding you are proposing would put us right at the point--if the gas tax had been indexed over time for construction cost inflation, that is about the amount of money we would collect ..."

"we aren't going to see mandatory repatriation, probably, out of this Congress; the Republicans don't support it."

"I have taken to calling us fourth world."