Political Quotes

“My amendment would prohibit funds being made available for the Federal Transit Administration's Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program. This $250 million program simply serves to further Joe Biden's radical climate change agenda and fund Green New Deal pet projects to support coastal elitists in blue States. As an example, the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority received $3.4 million to construct a new zero- emissions ferry. The Casco Bay Island Transit in Portland, Maine, received $3.6 million to replace a passenger ferry with a new ferry equipped with a diesel hybrid propulsion system. The Kitsap Transit in Kitsap County, Washington, received $7.7 million to replace a diesel vessel with a new, environmentally friendly battery-electric passenger- only ferry and necessary charging infrastructure. Mr. Chairman, I could go on and on. This is not the taxpayers' burden to bear these individual pet projects that I just named. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.”