So the users are, in fact, certainly paying their fair share.

This is an issue that has come out of the regional delegation's examination of the tragedy of June 22nd, this anomaly in Federal regulation where we do regulate for hard railcars on railroad systems, but not for transit.

I share some concerns about some of the Administration's proposals.

But if at the end of the day the ramifications of buyers making bad choices around the credit markets is that we, the taxpayers, are ultimately going to bail them out, don't we have some responsibility to perhaps put some either ring…

I concur that there have been failures in the systems and that we need to figure out how to do a better job on consumer protection.

No prudential regulation on the whole nonbank sector of the----

the notion--when we lost sight of the--three great things done by the Depression Era Congress and Administrations were the establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the establishment of the Federal Deposit Insurance…

We need an independent, single-focused mission Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

I completely concur, and I think that's the correct way to frame the issue for the Federal Government moving forward.

I find it odd that somebody would even suggest inferentially that this benefit provision, could itself constitute discrimination against folks in opposite-sex relationships...

As Representative Baldwin indicated, look at other ways of trying to address the issue of fairness in the provision of benefits.

So I'm going to be an enthusiastic supporter of H.R. 2517 and encourage my colleagues to do the same.

There's no question, Mr. Connolly, this is a very valuable tool.

We've got a lot of Federal employees ready to retire in the baby boom generation. How are we going to replace them...

If we are going to subsidize people because we think transit is good, instead of subsidizing transit agencies that tend to build urban monuments, maybe we should give those subsidies to the transit users.

I think there is a clear role for private operators and an expanded role.

I am intrigued with some of your comments about the growth of the private company bus competition in the Boston-to-Washington corridor.

I just want to say I am very interested in these ride-sharing approaches.