It makes no sense for us to have anything like that, you know, in legislation.

I believe that highway funding is incredibly critical infrastructure. Funding is incredibly critical.

I would hope that we might at least keep flat-line funding and see how many savings can be accomplished.

OK. All right. You say current receipts on the Highway Trust Fund cover about 60 percent of current funding levels.

I believe we are our own worst enemy. I think with overregulation and the cost and the delay that results that we prevent ourselves from being competitive.

I think it is another set of issues, but that hopefully within the context of immigration reform, as we create a rigorous path to earn legality, we also start addressing some of those.

I do not think that is what the Congress intended when we crafted these laws originally.

I do not consider my son or daughter remote from me.

I think each hearing has been productive and provided useful information.

Congress makes the laws. We made some mistakes in '96 when we amended the act, in my judgment.

I do not know what the remedies are. But as I am listening to you, I am thinking maybe we ought to have a vexatious litigant statute, as we do in California, as an additional part of our arsenal in the Federal system.

I agree with the comments that Mr. DeFazio had earlier that we are being left behind in the world.

I think we have to invest in our infrastructure because American competitiveness, American business, middle-class jobs, and our entire economy are at stake.

While I appreciate the comity the Chairman has afforded the minority, this is not a positive way to begin a new Congress and I hope the Majority will reconsider their approach.

I think this visitors center is very important. That war dictated many things in this country, not just the war.

Traditionally, as this Committee works, the Minority on the Committee, Democrats, have been provided a level of courtesy.

With drastic cuts to the Park Service budget we need to understand how to balance the demand for park experiences and the increased reliance of NPS on private money.

We again would encourage the Chair to consider bills as we see some before us today that have passed in the past and have received bipartisan support.