"Perhaps after a lengthy session, we can find some consensus on something."
"Well, here is just the thing. I mean, I am an old, very simplistic kind of guy."
"The government didn't think, 'Well, let us have a market-based system to clean up those rivers.'"
"They said, 'Hey, we are going to stop the polluting.'"
"I always like to encourage the use of two by fours since I have a number of manufacturers in my district."
"If we are looking at Canada as a competition, you still have your local fees per container."
"The harbor maintenance tax is probably a sore point with each of the four members here."
"Unfortunately, there is no $4 billion surplus. There are $4 billion worth of IOUs in the harbor maintenance trust fund."
"We can't assume if we build it they will come."
"I mean, these are things that have been through environmental review?"
"All right. Just one of my major criticisms of the so-called stimulus. Thank you for reinforcing my prejudices."
"I think it is a very positive bill. I would hope that the funding would be allocated based on the percentage of the freight that comes through the ports so that is something you might want to consider..."