Source: United States Senator for Kentucky Mitch McConnell
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding infrastructure:
“Yesterday, I joined a number of my Republican and Democratic colleagues and voted to begin floor consideration of bipartisan compromise legislation for our nation’s infrastructure.
“Our country would benefit a whole lot from some targeted investment in the kinds of real, tangible projects that fit a commonsense definition of actual infrastructure. Roads. Bridges. Ports and waterways. Airports. Broadband.
“A bipartisan compromise to responsibly finance these kinds of investments is guaranteed to be big and complex. It’s guaranteed to be the kind of legislation that no member on either side of the aisle will think is perfect. But it’s an important, basic duty of government.
“I’m glad to see these discussions making progress and I was happy to vote to begin moving the Senate toward what ought to be a robust, bipartisan floor process for legislation of this magnitude.
“The kind of focused compromise that our colleagues have been hashing out could not contrast more sharply with the multi-trillion-dollar reckless taxing and spending spree that Democrats hope to ram through on a party-line vote later this year.”
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