On the recordFebruary 29, 2012
I think it is a terrible mistake to go down that road, but I think it is a double mistake: it is wrong to go down that road in the first instance, but it is also wrong while we need jobs so urgently, while our highways crumble and our bridges deteriorate and water works continue to fail and we have the ability to put people to work in America at good jobs. You can't offshore a job building an American highway; you have to do it right here in this country. These are important jobs and this is important work. We should be getting about this. I think it sends a terrible signal to the American people when the Senate, taking up this piece of legislation, has to be led off into all these other battles that have nothing to do with highways, that have nothing to do with infrastructure, that have nothing to do with jobs, but are simply an exercise in political gamesmanship.
