"I don't think that we should all be reinventing the wheel. We should learn from other states' experiences."
"What the businesses in Hawaii were saying is please, please exempt Hawaii's law from whatever you folks are doing because they--our law works."
"I certainly share this administration's view that infrastructure is one of the areas that we absolutely have to put resources into."
"I was particularly interested in your testimony section on the airports improvement programs."
"I think that all of the provisions in that reauthorization really affect every single community."
"I would hope that with this Congress that we will be able to come up with a reasonable, fair, and forward-looking FAA reauthorization."
"The real-life impact on remote areas and communities all across our country... would be very extreme if we do not continue to support EAS."
"But you know when you are talking about saving lives, I would say that that should have been even heavier on the side of the benefit side."
"It is clear in our country that we are trillions of dollars behind in supporting our infrastructure."
"I again want to say thank you to the Committee Members, this Subcommittee, and I want to say thanks to our staff."
"Today, we hold our seventh hearing on security clearance issues, and I am pleased to say that we have seen tremendous progress throughout the course of our oversight work."
"I want to welcome this panel to the Subcommittee and also thank my brother and good friend, Senator Voinovich, for his leadership here."
"It is our responsibility and that of our witnesses today to correct these problems in order to preserve homeownership and provide much needed relief to distressed borrowers."
"Too many homeowners in our country have faced the threat of foreclosures, and hearing our witnesses here, I think of Hawaii as suffering from this."
"Borrowers rightly expect their mortgage lenders and servicers to work in good faith to help them keep their homes."
"Homeowners are under a tremendous amount of financial stress right now, which is what makes the recent reports of problems within the mortgage servicing industry all the more troubling."
"We urgently need that funding."
"We must do more to help distressed borrowers and preserve homeownership."
