We have always appreciated it, at DOT OIG, this committee's, and your colleagues' committees over on the House side, concern and interest in and support across all the years.

Well, thank you, Chairman, very much.

I mean, I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, and I saw what happens when people don't--and how they vote later--when people aren't treated with respect.

As long as the market does not take into account the costs that we all bear for some of these activities, there isn't an incentive, a market incentive to reduce them.

There are so many opportunities for safety, for improved productivity, for better health effects.

There are market distortions in our transportation system that mean that we don't take full advantage of the opportunity for cost savings.

I think continuing in that direction is important.

We're trying to support that middle ground, safety and innovation, because we're talking about 32,092 lives, and we could save all of them.

Because of the great leadership of Senator Alexander and Senator Murray, we passed the Every Student Succeeds Act.

most of these programs, if not all of them, require interagency coordination.

the formula must be corrected, and your leadership is going to make that change effective.

Well, thank you very much, Madam Chairman.

If you get into a family self-sufficiency program to raise your wages or a jobs program, you're going to lose your housing, that's not the right message either.

One approach that I have talked to my colleagues about for several years now has been forcing the institutions and the lenders to put skin in the game.

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for the hearing.

Thank you very much, Chairman. Let me associate myself with the remarks of Governor and now Senator Carper.

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