What reason would there be to not make those documents available to Senator Lautenberg, Senator Vitter and myself, Senator Klobuchar?

Then why is it that your budget slashed funding for EPA endocrine-disruptive chemical testing program that Dr. Hirsch said is so important?

I agree with you, Dr. Hirsch, to be prudent is key here. And to be prudent is to protect our children and our pregnant women and to do the work that is necessary.

I was appalled to hear of the incidence of animal cruelty documented by The Humane Society of the United States at the Westlands meat packing plant in Chino, California, and I am concerned about the United States Department of…

Any company that slaughters downed animals and knowingly violates the laws and regulations governing sick and downed animals, should have their operating licenses revoked immediately.

I am all for streamlining, as long as we keep protections in there.

It is not about me. It is about your constituents.

I think your point about a connection between the environment and our infrastructure is key.

Senator Boxer. We seem to have an open checkbook, I would agree with Senator Voinovich, for other countries at this point, but not for the taxpayers.

I find your testimony a tremendous let-down.

That is why I thought the Commission, and that Commission, with Republicans and Democrats and Independents, and they came together and said, we need to have a new sources of funding based on vehicle miles traveled.

Senator Boxer. The fact is, we are doing 40 percent. And the States and the cities and everybody else, and the counties, are doing the rest.

It really disturbs me to think that Government would know... if you want to know how many people are using a road at a certain time of day, you just set those little strips.

We need to make sure we can build the roads, but do it right, make sure that we have environmental protections.

How we come up with $225 billion a year by simply allocating our resources more efficiently, encouraging States to impose fees such as tolls and congestion pricing, it is just not going to happen.

Senator Boxer. Now, $40 billion a year from the Federal Government, that is 4 months in Iraq.

I do find those words inspiring.

I just think it is so much of a false--I know you believe what you are saying--but it is a false expectation for the people to believe that we can meet our needs as a great and growing and strong Nation.