Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, Henry Clay, the great compromiser, once said the good thing about compromise is that for everything you give up, you get something in return. And, indeed, that is where we are today. We bring back from our conference with the Senate a compromise. Now, if I could waive a magic wand, there are several things in this bill I would do differently. So we do bring a compromise to the floor, but it is a good compromise. It is more than a good compromise, Mr. Speaker. It is an historic piece of legislation. It is an historic piece of legislation because we put the trust back in the transportation trust funds. This is an historic piece of legislation, Mr. Speaker, because now the American people will know that trust is being put back in the transportation trust fund. The revenue they pay, the gas tax which they pay into the transportation trust fund, will be available to be spent on transportation purposes.”