National Infrastructure Bank
At a Capitol Hill Press conference today alongside Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Governor Ed Rendell (PA), Dick Gephardt today called for the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank.
MIDDLE GROUND SHRINKS IN DEBATE
The bipartisanship that went on for 30 years was abnormal, and what you're seeing now is more normal," said former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, a Democrat from Missouri. "You've got to always remember that politics is a substitute for violence. ... If I disagree with you, it becomes very easy to not like you.
"Both parties have come to the view that to win elections, you need to deprive the other side of legislative victories," Gephardt said. "If that's your political strategy, then that's your legislative strategy."