Nick Rahall: “That's about all we're getting out of H.R. 7, too. Madam Speaker, if the other side were serious about creating jobs…”

“That's about all we're getting out of H.R. 7, too. Madam Speaker, if the other side were serious about creating jobs, they would have worked in a bipartisan fashion in this body, as the other body did, to build a bill that could pass both bodies of the Congress and be signed into law. As the distinguished Democratic leader has just said, everybody is on board except the leadership of the House of Representatives on the Republican side. Just as this Congress has done so many times before--and I have been in this body over three decades, involved in every transportation bill we've done over that time--every transportation bill we've done has been in a bipartisan fashion, passing this body by overwhelming margins. {time} 1120 Instead, today's leadership in this House has plowed full speed ahead writing a partisan proposal that is aimed at appealing to ideological spectrums of their party. Last month, Teamsters general president James Hoffa wrote in a letter: How do eliminating OSHA protections for hazmat workers improve this Nation's crumbling roads and bridges? How do loopholes in ``Buy America'' protections put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job?…”