the American Society of Civil Engineers has estimated that we should be investing over $2 trillion in infrastructure.
we are seeing transportation technology that we don't have in the United States of America.
we need an additional $1 billion over the next 5 years just to keep our roads and bridges in the same poor shape they ar...
if you allow your infrastructure to deteriorate, year after year after year you don't put funding in it, you know what? ...
Are we looking at a form of three-piece-suit CEO corporate loan sharking here?
the incredible greed, recklessness, illegal behavior on the part of Wall Street has enraged the American people.
I think one way that we can move forward... is to, in fact, put a cap on interest rates.
I get in my office--and I am sure Senator Whitehouse and every Senator gets--irate calls from taxpayers of this country....
I think obviously the American people have had it up to here with financial institutions in general.
Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for allowing me to drop into this Committee of which I am not a member, and thank you ...
Do you think taxpayers have a right to be a little bit upset about that?
We decided as a matter of national policy and national security that we had had it with the people who were gouging the ...
I think we learned in the AIG boardroom what the market would do if it could do its thing.
Given the importance of the capability to deter, detect, and destroy airborne threats to the United States, it is import...
I think the potential is there. I think it's a real uphill battle.
I am glad to see the Secretary and Admiral Mullen.
I just had an opportunity to lead a Senate delegation on a trip to Iraq and Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Would you agree that there is a significant difference between the police and the Army.
