This is an incredible opportunity to not only celebrate the ties that bind the United States and our neighbors, but to set a course for transportation in the 21st century. Secretary Albright is making her mark by traveling, not around the world, as you might expect, but to the middle of America, explaining why foreign policy is a bread and butter issue. Let me say, so is transportation.
Transportation is about more than concrete, asphalt, and steel.
It is about providing economic opportunity. This afternoon, we will deal with issues our predecessors 10 years ago never dealt with. Issues of how we can better move the billions of dollars of goods and the millions more people, north and south, since we tore down trade barriers. And this is just the beginning. President Clinton is in South America, this week.