I listened very carefully to the response you gave Representative Clark and appreciate it.

The budget makes hard choices, and they are hard, but they are responsible choices that have to be made.

This is simply a case where Congress said we were pretty late getting our omnibus done.

A wall goes up, and then you saw the very significant drop in illegal crossings at that spot--as well as vehicles and people.

We see the benefit when communities want to step into an investment with a freight railroad like Union Pacific.

It's going to be interesting. This Committee and the Committee that I chair, and the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Transportation Committee, we're all going to be working real close together and keeping pretty busy, I think.

It's kind of a win-win situation because it helps the community with their congestion and it helps the railroads.

The FAST Act, when we passed the FAST Act, I was Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee.

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