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| Water Resources Development Act Of 2013 |
May 9, 2013 |
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Mary Landrieu, D-LA
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"The bill never came to the Senate floor although some of us protested that at the time. There are statements in the Record that show the protests any number of us made at the time. The bill then sort of went dark. The next time it appeared, it was tucked into the Transportation bill, which had the RESTORE Act in it and the Biggert-Waters flood insurance, which might have passed the House of Representatives—I am not sure. Maybe it just came out of the House committee. I am trying to get clarification on whether this bill ever was passed by either body, and I will get that clarification in a few minutes. But it most certainly never came to the Senate floor, so no one here, except members of the Banking Committee—which Senator Vitter is a member of, and so he knows this issue very well—voted on this."
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| Jobs And Health Care |
May 7, 2013 |
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Tim Ryan, D-OH
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"The narrative today is that everything that the government does—every dollar the government spends money on—is bad. Well, that’s the narrative we’re all operating on now because our friends on the other side, quite frankly, have won that discussion. But here we are. We can’t get a transportation bill because that falls into government spending. Early childhood education, Head Start—that all somehow falls into this abyss of wasteful government spending when the fact of the matter is that these are investments that yield results and that create value and wealth in our society."
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| Water Resources Development Act Of 2013—Continued |
May 7, 2013 |
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Barbara Boxer, D-CA
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"Let me explain that. We expanded a program called TIFIA in the Transportation bill dealing with transportation infrastructure. We said where a local government or a region came forward with, say, a sales tax or bond for a series of transportation projects, and they wanted to move quickly and build them in a shorter timeframe, as long as they had that steady stream of funding, the Federal Government, with virtually no risk, could advance these funds and let them build these projects quicker, creating jobs and improving the infrastructure quicker."
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