Political Quotes

“Very quickly, and then I will yield to Mr. Tonko directly, if that's okay, afterwards. I wanted to bring to the attention of my colleagues and the American people we're talking about what can happen if you ignore infrastructure needs, we're talking about past examples and the potential for future examples of infrastructure problems all across this country and, yes, it's an investment that we need to make. Our roads and bridges, our locks and dams, our rail system, our aviation system as we talked about, our waterways, commerce, there's hundreds of billions of dollars of need. But we're also trying to remain internationally competitive, and we can't be internationally competitive if we have substandard infrastructure. And that just doesn't mean infrastructure that's in disrepair; that means upgrading and improving to adapt to modern technology. {time} 2110 I know as one example, I visited the Port of Miami a year or two ago. They're undergoing a multibillion-dollar project to redredge the port-- one of the largest ports in the United States--to accommodate the larger ships that are going to be able to come through the Panama Canal when the Panama Canal project is completed.…”