Political Quotes

“if you care about building America, this is a rule and budget resolution that one can support. In fact, it is one of the best budget resolutions that we have seen in many a day. I want to commend the leadership of the Committees on the Budget of both the House and Senate for honoring their commitments to fully fund transportation. The conference report allocates sufficient transportation function funds so that we can fully fund TEA 21, the highway and transit legislation, including the adjustments resulting from the increased revenues going into the gas tax collections into the Highway Trust Fund. It also fully funds AIR 21 capital programs and it fully funds the President's request for FAA operations, which is at the full AIR 21 level. In addition, there are no cuts in Coast Guard or in Amtrak, despite the predictions of the critics during our debate and consideration over AIR 21. So those predictions simply have not come to pass in this budget resolution. The conference report keeps faith with the American people. The taxes collected for highways and transit improvements will go into the Highway Trust Fund for highway and transit improvements. The taxes collected for aviation will go to aviation improvements. Gone are the days of using trust funds to mask the size of the deficit. The budget resolution restores honesty to the budget process. This is a budget resolution which we can be proud to support, because it is a budget resolution which helps build America.”