I say we cannot afford not to do it.

Building infrastructure does not come on the cheap.

Americans do not want big Government, but I will tell you what they do want.

We must stop this cycle.

I was extremely encouraged with President Obama's recent announcement that he is asking Congress to create a National Infrastructure Bank.

The truth is that infrastructure is directly related to America's economic strength.

your investment in the TIGER grant will create for Tennessee 5,100 jobs.

I think it would make a difference.

This is an amazingly bipartisan Committee.

the only progress I think we feel we have made is now everyone admits it is a problem, you do and everyone else, but no one does anything about it.

China does basically whatever it wants while we grow weaker and they grow stronger.

Jack knows how to make the tough choices that will be needed to put our country back on a sound fiscal course.

In these challenging times, it is imperative that we have strong leadership at OMB.

He was instrumental in putting together the 1997 bipartisan deficit reduction package that helped create those surpluses.

I want to thank Senator Gregg for accommodating this change in the schedule because of votes that are to come in the Senate this morning.

From the beginning of the Obama administration, we have made clear that there is a path open to the DPRK to achieve the security and international respect it seeks. . . . If North Korea chooses that path, sanctions will be lifted, energy…

So help us change the law.

To not act is unjustifiable. It costs American jobs.