[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1680]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       SURFACE TRANSPORTATION ACT

  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, I wish to comment on the remarks of 
the leader just a few minutes ago.
  I came to talk about the budget, which I want to do, that was 
produced by the President. But I will say we had a vote on going to the 
highway bill last week and the vote was 85 to 11. So Republicans are 
ready to go to the highway bill.
  We have talked about what a great job Senator Boxer and Senator 
Inhofe did in the committee, working together, to produce a bill. 
Senator Rockefeller and I have negotiated what is a good settlement on 
the Commerce part of that bill, and I think we are going to have to 
have separate votes on the party-line committee vote that was made in 
Commerce and have a compromise that I think Senator Rockefeller and I 
will both support going forward.
  But I think we just need to get on it. It is just time to go. We 
don't need to stand here and talk about not being able to move. Let's 
move. Republicans are ready. Let's go.

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