Ray LaHood
Ray LaHood
Raymond H. "Ray" LaHoodis an American politician who served as United States Secretary of Transportation from 2009 until 2013. A Republican from Illinois, LaHood represented Illinois's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2009. In 2015, LaHood's book, Seeking Bipartisanship: My Life in Politics, coauthored with Frank H. Mackaman of The Dirksen Congressional Center, was published by Cambria Press...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 December 1945
ethically formula people rest side
The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.
edgar offer
What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.
good
they don't think he'll do it because he's done it before and he has a good lifestyle.
follow heir knowing unknown
They didn't like the unknown of not knowing who would follow on, ... There was no heir apparent.
allow driving skills
I don't think my driving skills would allow that,
believe cannot cool favor government interested involved
I don't really favor that kind of thing, ... I know you all like COOL up here ... but I cannot believe you're interested in having the government get involved in this thing.
beat decides nominee
If he decides to do that, he'll be the nominee of our party, and he's the one that can beat Blagojevich,
retired
He's like a retired prince, ... He doesn't have to rush.
believe talking people
What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.
swings bridges rivers
Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.
air world runway
A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.
moving blue two
The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.
years bills lasts
Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.
iceland world levels
Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.