"I don't know about my colleague from North Carolina, but I can't understand why 3 years after a disaster we're still sitting on over $200 million when there are people in desperate need for it."
"This is something that really bothers me, is that we fund these projects, the money doesn't get spent, another storm hits, we appropriate more money, and we don't know yet what's been done to mitigate..."
"There is always going to be frustration with regulations... This really has been for 2-1/2 years been a mess."
"So you think you could use maps like the National Hydrography Dataset and the National Wetlands Inventory, those type maps, for regulatory purposes, or particularly for jurisdictional determinations?"
"It is insulting to infer that anyone wants to have filthy water, that anyone wants to destroy water for recreational use, much less drinking."
"I believe the last administration was pursuing policy objectives before looking at the law."
"It can't be a political objective. If it is just a political objective and you don't apply the right science, the right engineering, the right technology, you don't get the result that you really want..."
"Congress was--at the same time we passed the last gas tax, we started passing these corporate auto fuel economy standards."
"Questions from Hon. Gary J. Palmer to Kristin Poland, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Office of Highway Safety, National Transportation Safety Board."
"Questions from Hon. Gary J. Palmer to John Benish, Jr., President and Chief Operating Officer, Cook-Illinois Corporation, on behalf of the National School Transportation Association."
"I think it is important to know how many of these fatalities were the result of people going around the bus as opposed to the bus actually running over the child."
"That is incomprehensible to me that that many people are that stupid or that unconcerned about the safety of the kids on that bus."