Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for the question. I think when you look at particularly what we experienced during COVID, we saw some of the difficulties that families--particularly families with young children--had in accessing the internet so they could receive school instruction. And the reality is you need internet connections to access the world and to be able to communicate and be able to learn in the 21st century. And there were young people who were actually going to parking lots of McDonald's and other places that might have internet to do their homework. That can't happen in America. And so we want to ensure that rebuilding our infrastructure provides opportunities for every single young person in this country to realize their full potential. Because we are not just competing with the kid next door, we are competing with kids in China, Japan, and all over the world. We want to ensure that we have an infrastructure to support the economic growth we need. We also want to ensure that we can deliver goods, services, and information in the 21st century and that we are training young people and educating young people and training workers to compete successfully. You can't do that without infrastructure to support that development, that knowledge, and the work that needs to be done. You think of the experiences we saw during COVID. It made it very clear that we needed to move quickly.…”