The Congress is charged with responsibility of coming up with a new version of that proposal.
I think that could help structure more of these and make this not so--I think the ingredients are there.
Senator Bob Bennett of Utah is deeply entrenched with transit issues in Salt Lake.
I think we've arrived at a time when we need to recognize, as well, how important the role of transit can play.
This is not an anti-highway hearing, by the way. It's obviously critically important as well.
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.
That's high-speed. Is that high-speed?
the infrastructure bank idea of leveraging private dollars with public monies, which has been done in Vancouver, Canada,...
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.
I want to recognize who is in the audience.
He must have known we were having the hearing here this morning.
I want to thank all of you for being here today.
the idea of an infrastructure bank idea, which the mayor of New York, the Governor of California, the Governor of Pennsy...
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 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 thi...
