I believe that we authorized $750 million for this year and $1 billion for next year, and that it's estimated that $1 billion in TIFIA funding could leverage $10 billion in actual lending capacity.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the Highway Trust Fund will become insolvent in fiscal year 2015.

I want to join you in welcoming our witnesses. And I very much appreciate your scheduling this hearing so that we can discuss in very concrete terms, no pun intended, the needs of our Nation's crumbling infrastructure.

But I think, writ large around the country, one of the things we're still struggling with is, there are a lot of places where people don't want to pay tolls.

In this time of severe budgetary challenges, we are going to need to find political consensus on how to sustainably fund surface transportation over the long term.

What other sources of revenue would be available? Are there any innovative approaches being tried by the States?

But I must say that I was disappointed that the President's plan is not supported by a serious proposal to finance it.

It's clear that additional investments are necessary.

the Nation has four top cyber risks, and the first one listed is one that has been of great concern to me since we produced the bill last year that, unfortunately, could not get past a filibuster.

I just wanted to clarify that because perhaps that is one issue we could put to rest.

In that legislation, we did pay attention to the need for a more expert cyber workforce.

I do not support the sequestration process and believe we should be setting priorities

We have publicly, privately, and repeatedly urged our Russian counterparts to cease arms sales and deliveries to Syria.

I take it that your opinion is similar to Ms. Parrish that the structural solution is to take this decision out of the chain of command, and you feel that will make a substantive difference in the amount of reporting and, presumably, the amount of prosecuting?

Is a reduction in market share a goal of this administration?

It's too soon to tell.

This strikes me as not fair, but it also strikes me as leading to a perverse outcome.

Obviously, $943 million is a lot of money and is of great concern to us, or to me.