Political Quotes

“Woman, as I advised earlier in speaking to another amendment, some significant flaws in the basic operations of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration were revealed earlier this year and reported in an inspector general's report. Again, in an unprecedented move, after the IG report was released, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration publicly committed to a timeline to implement all of the inspector general's recommendations because of their serious and direct impact on NHTSA's ability to fulfill its core mission. I am grateful to NHTSA that they had this commitment to these reforms. Just like the Senate language, our amendment does provide for additional funding to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This amendment would increase NHTSA's funding by 23\1/ 2\ percent for fiscal year 2016 and over 27 percent for fiscal year 2017 from the authorized levels in the underlying bill. Maybe we don't go as far as the Senate, but these are significant and generous increases. Again, I will urge my colleagues to support the amendment. I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 0015”