Political Quotes

“I have great respect for my colleague from Utah, but I am in firm opposition to his amendment. It would completely undo months of hard work, bipartisan hard work. The two major bipartisan infrastructure bills that Chairman Carper and I and the EPW Committee passed unanimously would be totally undone here. The bipartisan gang spent months carefully and considerably negotiating this agreement with the White House. All of these meaningful investments that I talked about yesterday would be gone: the new bridge program--gone; supplemental funding for the Appalachian Development Highway System--gone; broadband funding needed to help close the digital divide--gone. We have come too far to throw all of this bipartisan work away on this substitute. Time is of the essence. Let's give our States the certainty that they need. By the way, there is permitting reform in this bill, right here, as we look at it. Let's get this across the finish line. So I would urge my colleagues to vote no on this amendment. Thank you The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.”