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The nonpartisan GAO office has now validated those employees finding that you broke the law.

According to press accounts, five EPA staff members were fired or reassigned after questioning your spending.

One of the most alarming aspects that I have heard concerns your expenditures. I am going to call them your outlandish expenditures on security.

I commend our colleague for advocating for a range of programs that clearly are important to his constituents and important to the country.

Work is actually synonymous with dignity. Dignity is a byproduct of work.

I don't believe nor do I ever think that the intended goal of public housing... was to create permanent housing.

We have to have some sense of flexibility... dependent upon the communities with which those public housing residents live.

Unfortunately, the President's infrastructure plan unveiled earlier this year would fall woefully short of this goal.

It cuts more than $168 billion from existing transportation and infrastructure programs, and it allows large companies and foreign investors to toll our roads and bridges.

Yes, it would. And you have been pretty successful.

I thank the gentleman from Florida.

How in the world can you say that one dollar in Title 23 funding would qualify somebody for a PAB?

We must also understand that Congress has a certain intent on how those are to be used

The intent of Congress was not for a dollar of Title 23 money to be able to qualify them for a PAB

I'm the most conservative on private property rights of anybody on this dais, I promise you being from Western North Carolina.

I do believe that if Congress had intended to provide private activity bonds for a passenger train traveling 80 to 110 miles per hour, as Brightline does, then Congress would have laid that out.

Some of my colleagues, including Congressman Mast, have raised these concerns related to the eligibility of a private sector entity like Brightline to receive Federal assistance.

If you're asking this county and more specifically their taxpayers to fund the maintenance of railroad crossing in perpetuity and they don't benefit, it has to be at least a cost consideration for this project.