Peter Welch

I really thought what you just said about the community that you grew up in versus the community that veterans are returning to really is compelling.

You are the tip of the spear for us in Congress.

We want funding for programs like the consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvement bill.

We want full funding of the Airport Improvement Program.

Let's invest in water infrastructure.

We have got to bite the bullet on funding.

We can't do it without a Federal transportation and infrastructure policy.

I look forward to working with you to include Vermont's priorities in your bill and stand ready to assist you in any way I can to ensure its expeditious enactment.

I pledge to work with you to identify and pass a sustainable federal revenue source.

Safe infrastructure requires a stable and reliable funding source.

There is no excuse for that: 299 bridges in Vermont are structurally deficient; 29 percent of our roads are in poor or very poor condition.

We are going to have to have a sustainable funding source, and I will support that.

It is a disgrace, what has happened to our infrastructure in this country. And it is going to be up to this Congress to finally address it.

We have received $4 million annually from the program, which is three times less than what we need.

It is vital that Congress enact a robust and fully funded infrastructure investment package.

We have to have more resilient systems, and that has to be organically ingrained in the legislation.

Long overdue investments in infrastructure require a stable and reliable federal funding source.

Federal funding must be provided to help ensure that our infrastructure is resilient to withstand increasingly powerful weather events.

Local governments are ill-equipped to take on stormwater, wastewater, and drinking water upgrades necessary to ensure our water is safe to drink.

Increasing funding to this and other discretionary programs will allow Vermont to take on more highway, bridge, bike and pedestrian projects.

I'm amazed. I'm coming home, and they're there delivering the mail. They've been at it for 10 or 12 hours.

You made the case that if there are going to be some other--you're making the case for privatization.

If we just have these costs go out of control, continue to go out of control, that cuts off access.

We are the only Government that I am aware of that really doesn't play an active role in trying to provide some pricing protection to benefit our taxpayers and consumers.

There is some argument that is always made by the pharma companies that if there is some pushback on their pricing power, that somehow means they are not going to innovate. I find that to be bogus because they are spending more on…