Political Quotes

“I rise today to discuss the mammoth $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill before the Senate. On Sunday night, we finally got to see the 2,700-page infrastructure bill that we will be voting on sometime tomorrow or Saturday. And what we saw is that Democrats want to give billions of dollars to unelected bureaucrats in the Biden administration to spend however they please. This bill spends $21.5 billion to create a new office at the Department of Energy called the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which would give President Biden's Secretary of Energy the power to use taxpayer dollars to invest in whatever green energy initiative she likes. Reminiscent of Solyndra, we can have the same bankruptcies at taxpayer expense. This bill spends $24 billion in taxpayer dollars to preserve the water in the San Francisco Bay, and the Long Island Sound would receive $106 million in taxpayer dollars. As the New York Times reported, ``Climate resiliency programs would receive their largest burst of government spending ever'' from this bill. And the Wall Street Journal rightly called it ``a major down payment on President Biden's Green New Deal.'' That is exactly what this bill is. Furthermore, this bill institutes a new tax on 42 chemicals that will raise prices for everyday consumers. Texans will bear the brunt of these high prices because 40 percent of the manufacturing plants that this new tax will hit are in Texas alone.…”