Political Quotes

“My amendment creates a national program to reduce pedestrian-motor vehicle accidents by identifying locations where deaths have occurred and supports local efforts to address those conditions. It is very important to the Nation, very important to the State. I look forward in going forward to be able to continue to work on these vital issues that were supported by any number of safety entities called under the umbrella of the road advocates. And I know that they will encourage us to work diligently on this. To my constituents in Houston, we will work together on making sure that I-45 is not intrusive. I support the Moving Forward Act. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record this particular Houston Chronicle article of June 9. [From the Houston Chronicle, June 9, 2020] Interstate 45 Realignment Would Cut Through a Historic Black Neighborhood in Houston (By James Brasuell) The construction of America's downtown highways destroyed thousands of black neighborhoods during the height of the urban renewal era in the 1940s and '50s--and a new impact study of a controversial highway project in Houston serves as a reminder that the racist policy never ended. The latest estimates of the human cost of the Interstate 45 project reveal that the highway expansion would require the destruction of 158 houses, 433 apartments or condos, 486 public housing units, 340 businesses, five churches and two schools; the Houston Chronicle reported.…”