"My bill is one of those that will help to fix this problem once and for all":
"You have blue states that do not care about the nation's laws. They want to be sanctuaries. They want to house illegals. And then who pays the price are citizens in red states who live in red states who actually do not want these sanctuary policies. So you have the American people, they're doing the right thing, and now they're subject to losing their lives or being in an auto accident with a CDL driver who cannot read our signs, who doesn't know our laws. And look, these commercial driver's license operators are driving rigs that are 80,000 pounds. 80,000. That's, that’s insane. And so, we have to do everything that's necessary. My bill is one of those that will help to fix this problem once and for all."
"If you actually penalize these states for allowing this behavior, they'll then have to turn around and fix it on their end":
"What I hope continues is that we do everything that we can to stop this major problem of foreign illegals, foreign nations who cannot read our road signs, [who] are gaming the system to get a CDL license and putting the lives of the American people at risk. This is one of the reasons why I sponsored the WEIGH Act here in D.C. It would actually give broader authority for the Department of Transportation to not just hold other states accountable that are letting these CDL licenses be issued, but it would also give the Department of Treasury the ability to withhold federal funds in the process. I think that's critical in this whole situation because, at the end of the day, economics is what reforms a lot of behavior. If you, if you actually penalize these states for allowing this behavior, they'll then have to turn around and fix it on their end. And that's how you save [the] lives of the American people."
