Political Quotes

“yesterday, the majority leader teed up the first procedural vote on an infrastructure bill that no one has seen yet. Our colleagues on both sides of the aisle have been hard at work for weeks negotiating in good faith to get a balanced agreement on an issue that virtually everyone supports. Infrastructure is not a partisan issue. But at this time, we have no details about how this deal would achieve our common goals. There is no bill text. We don't know what is in and what is out, no information about how it will be paid for and no score from the Congressional Budget Office to tell us whether the proposed pay-fors are credible. Now, we have been through an extraordinary pandemic, during which we have done some pretty extraordinary things when it comes to spending at the Federal level. I think the closest equivalent to the pandemic is World War II. Of course, this was a domestic war or battle against the virus, trying to deal with the public health consequences and the economic consequences as well. I voted for trillions of dollars of Federal spending, something I never thought I would do in the face of an emergency, a global emergency. But there is no emergency that exists for an infrastructure bill.…”