Anthony Foxx

I applaud Senator Sanders for taking a bold step and actually talking about the needs we actually have.

We believe in strengthening our Buy America program to make sure the American taxpayer dollars are being invested in American projects built by American hands with American products.

America is in a race, not just against our global competitors, but against the high standards of innovation and progress our Nation has shown for generations.

The work you all have done and will continue to do on this issue is vitally important.

What we really need is a Nation that moves more toward multi-modal movement, and one in which the users have choice.

The reality is that we are underinvesting in our infrastructure and we have been for some time.

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.

There is no substitute for predictable, sustained, Federal investment in our infrastructure system.

If America is going to be a world leader in producing this energy than we're going to have to be a world leader in safely transporting it as well.

America does not need another crisis. After all, we all take the same oath, an oath to protect this country and its people.

We believe our proposal meets a lot of the principles that many have articulated. We think it is the right way to go particularly given the urgency of the moment.

Our proposal is our proposal. We believe that it strikes the right balance and actually adheres to many of the principles that we've heard articulated from members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.