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We should expect that some portion of that money will go to the Iranian military and could potentially be used for the kinds of bad behavior that we have seen in the region.

Well, thank you very much. I'm sure the public would be very pleased to hear that, because with short-term borrowing going on, interest accruing, I'm not sure that was altogether clear.

I have to ask you why you are allowing--both you, Mr. Requa, and Mr. Anosike--why you are allowing short-term borrowing instead of going back and saying: Look, we've been on this for a year.

I believe you have complied in establishing the office and in meeting all the GAO's recommendations.

The only thing that the GAO found that WMATA had not done among its recommendations was it had not established the policy and related procedures for conducting periodic assessments of its financial management risks.

I'm not interested in punishing WMATA to the point that there is a Federal--that there is a fare hike.

If Congress cuts $50 million from its capital funding... then we can be assured that we are moving toward unsafety.

I do want to go on record as saying that in all those hearings and meetings there has been no evidence that Metro itself is unsafe.

We spend billions of dollars on trying to prevent and--trying to disrupt these threats, billions to try to stop them, but very little on prevention.

The threat is real. The threat is different. The threat is constant.

This Congress must move beyond simply talking about needs and start coming up with solutions.

One of my top priorities in this reauthorization bill is boosting funding for the Federal Lands Transportation Program.

I believe there is an important shared community of interest between rural and urban America that I think many Members are unaware of.

I protest, Mr. Speaker. I protest continuing to demand full citizenship costs from the residents of our Nation's Capital while denying them the vote granted to all other Americans that come with those costs. I thank my friend for yielding…

There's concern in the District of Columbia because the D.C. Council passed a law, it allows driver's licenses.

There are 15 States plus the District of Columbia that have filed briefs in this case that say that there would be improvement in their own economies.

And if they wanted to refuse them, they could?

You do have access, though, to these databases?