I want to say that I agree with Senator Vitter.

The good news is the Administration announced yesterday they were committed to fixing this within the next 6 weeks.

I objected to it then and, for every year since then I have been trying to get it back.

I can remember when we went through the crisis in September. At that time, I reminded everyone that we had a problem 10 years prior to that when then-President Clinton took $8 billion out of the Highway Trust Fund and put it into the…

If it was right to recoup the principal, then it would be right, equally, to recoup the interest.

We have enormous exploding debt and we should not add to it.

Now, we are going to have to have more money.

What figure would you like to use for the 18-month extension, forgetting about----

Unfunded mandates are the worst enemy we have.

I want your assurances at this meeting that you will treat the minority the same as you treat the majority in responding in a timely fashion to the requests that we had.

I am confident that both of you possess the knowledge and experience to address them with balance, competence, and, just as important, transparency.

I do not see much, if any, regional diversity at the Obama EPA.

I will be supporting your nomination.

Are you committed now to try to put something together where we will have some assurance that we are protecting small businesses and entities from some of the very difficult requirements that would be imposed upon them?

I would hope that you would commit to going back to how we were handling that and the successes that we have had in the past.

I hope that you will fulfill Administrator Jackson's commitment to maximize public participation and input on the decisions you make.

I have tried to get information to reanalyze the economic impacts of the Waxman-Markey.

What is good for the East Coast is not necessarily good for the rest of the United States.