Political Quotes

“I strongly support what you have been able to do and personally thank you for your inclusion of an amendment that I have felt very important. Senator Webb, my colleague from Virginia, and I announced on July 30 the basic text of that amendment. I am pleased today to add a few closing words. The conference report--likely my last WRDA as a Senator--includes the high priority Craney Island Eastward Expansion project. Craney Island represents a significant opportunity for the Commonwealth to be home to the development of state-of-the-art cargo operations. The project will accommodate a major new terminal for the Virginia Port Authority and will create over 54,000 new jobs annually, with wages of about $1.7 billion. Now, this port serves not only the Commonwealth of Virginia, but its tentacles reach deep into America. Many States are served. As home to the world's largest naval base; that is, the Tidewater region, and as one of the business commercial ports on the east coast, Hampton Roads is a strategic, critical port necessary for national defense, commerce, and trade.”