I would like to thank Chairman Kohl for scheduling this important hearing on Alzheimer's disease.

it costs more money to rebuild a crumbling infrastructure than it does to simply maintain it.

we need an additional $1 billion over the next 5 years just to keep our roads and bridges in the same poor shape they are in right now.

if you allow your infrastructure to deteriorate, year after year after year you don't put funding in it, you know what? It is going to get worse; probably will not get better.

we are seeing transportation technology that we don't have in the United States of America.

As we discuss the transportation infrastructure crisis in America, we cannot forget rural America.

the American Society of Civil Engineers has estimated that we should be investing over $2 trillion in infrastructure.

Thank you for your strong advocacy for the stimulus package which I think is one of the most important pieces of legislation, for a dozen different reasons, that this Country has passed in a very, very long time.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease that takes a tremendous personal and economic toll on both the individual, the family, and our country.

They talked to me about the need to have a patient-centered reimbursement system under healthcare rather than a procedure-centered system.

In my own family, we are all too familiar with the pain and hardship associated with Alzheimer's.

Thank you so much for holding this very important hearing that is of such tremendous interest, as you can see by this packed room.

Shouldn't the goal of our oversight of markets be to avoid or prevent the kind of manipulation that we saw over the last year, regardless of whether there was intent involved or not?

That's how we measure success.

I'm not going to turn my back on the American people who sent me here.

I'm not going to wait until we find out that our children can't compete for the jobs of the future.

At a time when our nation faces many challenges, it gives me confidence that these fine individuals have agreed to give their talents to serving the American people.

We measure economic recovery in a different way.