the infrastructure bank idea of leveraging private dollars with public monies, which has been done in Vancouver, Canada, and other places, i...
I'm pleased we are in New Haven this morning to talk with so many of Connecticut's transportation leaders.
the costs are prohibitive in many ways, and we are already lowering deficits in the Highway Trust Fund
We are operating both high-speed critical Amtrak service, critical commuter service, and we are running on a system that is now a hundred ye...
I want to get us as close to that mode neutral where States and communities can start making decisions based on what their needs are.
the idea of an infrastructure bank idea, which the mayor of New York, the Governor of California, the Governor of Pennsylvania, and, in fact...
Richard Shelby, my colleague on the Committee, cares about these issues in his communities as well.
He must have known we were having the hearing here this morning.
The Congress is charged with responsibility of coming up with a new version of that proposal.
I want to thank all of you for being here today.
This is not an anti-highway hearing, by the way. It's obviously critically important as well.
I want to prioritize. We're not going to have--it's going to be a battle already because of the deficits.
I had a conversation with my Senate colleague from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, recently, and she was talking about this great interest she...
As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over Federal transit and housing programs, I intend for the Committee to...
I appreciated very much the President's announcement of policy with regard to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday.
I agree.
I think particularly our effort in Afghanistan has really been under-resourced for too long.
So moved.
