I think the study would be fundamentally flawed if we are not considering the local roads and the impact that it has on the local taxpayers.

Their roads and bridges are older, and they are in worse condition, and they are many times built to a lower standard.

When you hear both sides of the aisle, both sides of the Capitol, both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, everybody is talking about a long-term bill.

But I would like you to take that message back to the White House, that let's do the leadership role of funding a transportation system, and let's let the public pay for it.

Budgeting for results, I think, is key to that.

We can discuss everything you want, Mr. DeFazio.

Pennsylvania is the worst of the worst up there with bridges.

It is my hope that you will make the point to your colleagues and leadership who are holding the funding for a key agency...

I hope that this committee, that we have overlapping jurisdiction, will ramp up the dollars that will intervene in that radical heinous ideology.

I frankly think this is an important discussion, and many front-line DHS employees will be, in essence, hindered from their work without the full funding of this committee.

But if your law were more restrictive, would you want to be under that law just for the rights of the citizens involved?

I look at this and I must admit this looks like the fox guarding the henhouse.

I support ICD-10, moving forward to ICD-10 rather than another delay.

The hubris shown by HHS is downright insulting and callous to the millions of families and individuals suffering under this broken system.

We want to help in this committee, this Congress wants to help, but we can't help you if you are not even willing to admit there is a problem.

I hope you will take another look at this because I see people here that really should not be telling you whether or not a program works.

ICD-9 is more than 30 years old and does not capture the data needed to track changes in modern medical practice and healthcare delivery.

The United States currently lags behind most of the rest of the world, which already uses the updated ICD-10.