Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk about the legislation before us and how it is an investment today for jobs tomorrow. And I want to thank my colleague from Mississippi for his partnership on this legislation. It seems like a century ago that we had a markup in committee and passed this out--the science portion, which we are now voting on--24 to 4, more than a year ago. And yet here we are today, on the product of much negotiation, not just in our committee but in eight other committees--seven other committees. We are here because we know that innovation is in the DNA of Americans, and we know that it helped us win the world wars; it helped us cure disease. We know it has helped create millions of jobs, and it has helped members of the business community on opposite sides of a phone call or an email connect to each other to get a product or a service. So this bill embraces American innovation and our tradition of it, and I, too, encourage a ``yes'' vote. After watching the COVID crisis mangle our supply chain and see semiconductors be a big part of inflation, the shortage of semiconductors has increased the cost of a used car by more than 40 percent, putting it out of reach of many families at a time when they just needed a car to drive to work. So this bill is about making sure that we face our manufacturing challenges here at home and that we train and skill the scientists and the workers to get that done.…”