John D. Porcari: “The Gateway Project is eliminating a single point of failure for 10 percent of America's gross domestic product”

Again, what the sequester is in a part of a fiscal year, because three-quarters of our Department is exempt from it, is the equivalent of a 90 percent cut.

We need to, as I have mentioned before, level the playing field so that jurisdictions throughout the country can make the choices that make sense to them.

To be clear, Mr. Nadler, for both the Portal Bridge and the tunnel, those projects cannot go forward without a Federal commitment.

We don't have any portion of the transportation system that stands totally on its own legs financially.