Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II

Floor Speech

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Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. I want to thank my colleague for yielding me the time.

Mr. Speaker, this is just embarrassing. It is embarrassing that we are here talking about the umpteenth patch for the umpteenth time. Other countries around the world right now are looking at us and wondering whether or not the United States is still interested in leading. Let's forget the short-term patches. Let's finally deal with the problem.

The previous speaker, Mr. Blumenauer, is exactly right. Before coming here, as a State legislator in Pennsylvania, we had Democrats and Republicans band together and cast a very politically tough vote. It was the right thing to do. Both Democrats and Republicans did it, and now we are finally building bridges and repairing roads that we neglected for 20 years in our State.

It is time for the U.S. Federal Government to do exactly the same, right thing. Bite the bullet, and let's show that in America we can solve big problems and we can lead again.

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