the costs are prohibitive in many ways, and we are already lowering deficits in the Highway Trust Fund
I'm pleased we are in New Haven this morning to talk with so many of Connecticut's transportation leaders.
We are operating both high-speed critical Amtrak service, critical commuter service, and we are running on a system that...
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.
I want to recognize who is in the audience.
I think that could help structure more of these and make this not so--I think the ingredients are there.
the idea of an infrastructure bank idea, which the mayor of New York, the Governor of California, the Governor of Pennsy...
I want to prioritize. We're not going to have--it's going to be a battle already because of the deficits.
I want to get us as close to that mode neutral where States and communities can start making decisions based on what the...
I want to thank all of you for being here today.
As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over Federal transit and housing programs, I intend ...
I had a conversation with my Senate colleague from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, recently, and she was talking about thi...
Iran's actions and rhetoric have in fact prompted our partners in the Gulf to seek closer relationships than we have had...
So moved.
I think particularly our effort in Afghanistan has really been under-resourced for too long.
I agree.
I appreciated very much the President's announcement of policy with regard to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday.
