Political Quotes

“first, I commend my distinguished colleague. We worked together as a team on this. He has spent a good deal of his career in the U.S. Senate fighting to improve America's infrastructure and transportation. I am going to place at the desk at the time of the vote a letter signed by 66 Members of this body supporting precisely what it is we have before them today in this amendment, together with letters from each of the Governors. All 50 Governors support a higher level of funding for our highways. Senator Baucus and I, as we worked on this amendment, decided not to take the top dollar. As Senator Baucus clearly said, $17 billion remains in the trust fund. We tried to take a reasonable amount of increase. This chart shows the green line of what this budget resolution does in terms of highways--flat. Our amendment takes this up at a gradual increase to where we reach the $26 billion, that figure subscribed to by 66 Senators, that figure subscribed to by all 50 Governors. I yield the floor.”