Political Quotes

“Others before me have said why it matters that we have working locks and dams. It has always mattered. The United States has more miles of navigable rivers, lakes, and canals than anywhere else in the world. It made us who we are as a nation. We could move iron ore to make steel faster, cheaper, and easier than all of our competitors because of our water, but especially because of our locks and dams that control the water. So we need to fix them, and this bill will help. I hope that America will take note of something else here today, which is that this Congress still works. It might not be as well as people would want every single day, but this is a major bill. This is a major infrastructure bill, and this is a major infrastructure bill that has been bipartisan from the very beginning and, hopefully, will end bipartisan when our friends in the Senate work with us to get this done. I want to give a special thanks to my Republican friend and colleague from Texas (Mr. Babin). Together, we led a big group of Members from both parties in support of a better way to fund these locks and dams. I especially want to thank Chairman DeFazio and Ranking Member Graves, who agreed. Now we have a better chance to rebuild the locks and dams and to deliver on the promise we made to the American people.”