Political Quotes

“over the past few weeks, my Republican colleagues and I have spent quite a bit of time making sure the American people know just how little of President Biden's 2-plus trillion dollar infrastructure plan will fund actual infrastructure plans to fix roads and bridges that are so in need of repair. These are things that the Tennesseans have repeatedly told me they want to see in a bill: Fix the roads. Fix the bridges. What do they want to be taken out of that bill? They want to get rid of some of these provisions that have nothing to do with infrastructure--nothing. So imagine their disappointment--people who are ready for a highway bill, who are ready for a transportation bill, who are ready for an infrastructure bill--imagine their disappointment when they discovered that all the funding that they had hoped was going to go to potholes and expanding lanes on the interstate and fixing flooded back roads would instead be spent on electric cars, union advocates, and climate change ambassadors. I know pothole repair isn't flashy, but it is what Tennesseans need. An electric car does not do you one bit of good when you are going to have to have a four-by-four to go pull it out of the mud every single time it rains. We are pretty practical people, and my wish would be that my colleagues across the aisle would join us in reviewing the needs of the American people--the needs of the American people--and in being practical.…”