I think we should be repairing in a U.S. facility.

The Affordable Care Act, according to the Congressional Budget Office, is a $1.8-trillion expenditure.

Wouldn't it be great, Madam Secretary, if Dr. Price, in the question that he asked, if you were able to say, here is the answer, here is the answer, when he made the inquiry...

Wouldn't it be a good thing if we were to amend the law and you had that information and there were a special inspector general that had broad jurisdiction?

This is not a sprint. This is a marathon, and there are a lot of issues.

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Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of one of my constituents, John Henry Dayton, who passed away on February 9. John was born in Turlock, California, to Charles and Florence Dayton. He was raised on a ranch in Hughson…

I do have some concerns there, because, you know, how is the Congress and the Department, how are we expected to really have oversight visibility across this massive undertaking

I think that would be important so this doesn't get away from us and we are providing the level of support that you need, as well, to make it effective.

So I don't understand why--what we were told was you are going to stop them leading up to the vote and I don't know if it was because there was push from with the administration to get the project going and so you felt like holding the…

Absolutely. My point is, having worked on development for a small nonprofit, you don't get the award unless you can demonstrate you can fulfill the obligations and requirements of the award generally, and I assume that is how you operate.

Hopefully you will be willing to work with the community and help fund what the community comes up with.

But will you all refocus and help us come up with a real solution that both Oregon and Washington can support?

I think you hit the nail on the head, the community needs to decide what is best for them.

I guess I want to know why the administration is still pushing a project on States and citizens who appear not to want it.

So that is money taken out of the industry.

But to take the money out of the industry that is in large part small business and private, jobs come from there.

I applaud that you are looking for places to get financing, but what we really need is a long-term, big-picture plan to pay for repairing our aging infrastructure.