Senator Reid and I, with great help from Senator Stevens, last week led the fight here in the Senate to add significant sums to the fiscal y...
You were visionary in being able to do it.
They are that far away.
Yes, I think it would be a good idea, don't you?
I think it has worked extremely well.
My only point is, and I have been saying this for sometime, and others, it is not just me, that we would be better off if we had the transpo...
Congress has to. So I plan to work with the subcommittee, Chairman Stevens, Ranking Member Byrd, and Chairman Domenici to ensure that this s...
Chairman Domenici has never tolerated the Department treating his State or any other State or any locality shabbily.
And do you expect to involve stakeholders in the development of this transportation plan?
I am not going to defend any counties that are spending Federal dollars inappropriately if that, in fact, is the case.
The administration's proposals are inadequate to fund ongoing projects at anything other than minimal levels.
This is about $600 million less or a 14 percent cut from the amount enacted in 2003.
But you cannot do that with no money, can you?
But you do not necessarily agree that was a good decision, do you?
But you see, that is the problem that a number of people had, and that is, how can you have a license application if you have not done anyth...
I am very pleased that someone, somehow, has worked through the Office of Management and Budget, and the Executive Branch has finally recogn...
So that would be about a year-and-a-half or something like that?
Do you have people that are keeping track of the litigation that is ongoing with Yucca Mountain?
