It is a disgrace that the liberals in this country gave him such leeway over the years, never calling Castro to task for all of this violation of human rights on a mass scale in his own country.

It seems to me that putting a couple of wars on the national credit card, cutting taxes for the rich, and looking the other way while Wall Street crashes the economy had a lot to do with it.

repealing it would actually make things worse?

I think those who are watching have had an interesting window into some of the forces that have taken us to the brink of a government shutdown.

If we fail on this, this is our moment in the sun or in the darkness, to be honest.

If it is not solved, we are really talking about... millions of jobs.

I want to point out that with the current Highway Trust Fund, it will be empty, completely empty, by 2015.

I am so proud of members on both sides, by the way.

This has been a very important bipartisan statement of support for making sure that we invigorate the Highway Trust Fund and we have to do it in a smart way.

I think this is very important, so we will put those in the record and we will get started with you, Dr. Ruane.

We need to do something like that.

If things are worth having they are worth paying for.

Your question is important, sustaining the current levels for actually moving forward.

I am hopeful we can come together, we need to come together for the good of the country.

We have a responsibility to get this right for the entire country.

I wanted to point out, because of our work together, all of us, on TIFIA, we had a way that was able to dramatically leverage existing funds.

To me, failure is not an option, period. This is on our backs. This is our responsibility.

This is our moment in this Committee. What we do now is going to be critical.