improvements are still needed in the DES

I think these hearings that you are doing are probably one of the most important hearings we are doing.

Your insistence on making sure that Congress has oversight is crucial, crucial.

A certain amount it appears is going for planning, and I am not against that or for studies, and that does also create jobs.

My heart aches seeing folks without a job, and our whole objective--your objective, the Administration--was to get people to work as soon as possible.

Well, thank you again. I appreciate your coming in and keeping us posted on your progress.

I want to thank you, sir, for your insistence and your aggressiveness in oversight, which is essentially.

But, again, the problem was the clarity in definition, which GAO identified as a problem.

I am not going to get up here, and there are other agencies that have not been as good a steward as Secretary LaHood and the Administration has been on transportation.

I appreciate your good work.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Appreciate your calling this hearing and also helping us make certain that we acted responsibly and act responsibly in assessing how Federal dollars in a huge stimulus package that was well intended, but we…

we still want folks to be held accountability and we are watching very closely how money is being spent.

We have to prioritize those investments to ensure that as our farms grow fewer in number but larger in size...

I think with the limited funding that we are going to have with the next reauthorization that we really do need to look back towards the Eisenhower years when we created the interstate system.

I would ask for support from the Committee as we go forward with reauthorization.

Construction and completion of I-49 will support the creation of up to 206,290 new jobs.

I hear some of our firms complain that regulators are coming in every week, a different set.

We could require support of some funding for, for instance, better education.