Anthony Foxx: “Our bill puts fully $28.6 billion over 6 years into a passenger rail system so that there is multiyear certainty that…”

I stand with you 100 percent in urging Congress to provide adequate funding to build transit system capacity to meet growing ridership demand.

I want to thank you for being such a great voice for the need to fix the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund and for long-term stability in the funding.

We have growing freight activity in this country. And without substantial, new, more robust investments in infrastructure, we're going to find ourselves more bottlenecks, more congestion and more delays.

Today, we have 100,000 bridges in our country that are old enough for Medicare and a Highway Trust Fund that is running dry.