Paul Gosar

I just do not see how a board of directors made up of good people, but from different industries, are going to do anything other than support the issues of their industries, of their special interests.

I think it potentially could, frankly, create great risk if we were to hand decisions over to an unaccountable corporate board.

I am concerned that the proposal would reduce or even eliminate, frankly, the public's voice in something as critical as our national air traffic controller.

I believe that preserving the public's voice, frankly, is the only way to maintain our airspace as a national asset.

I have not been shy of saying that I believe that we should maintain the air traffic control system that is accountable to the public.

I have some concerns about the administration's proposal to terminate the Department's work with local governments on several dozen transit projects.

Without sustained increases in funding commensurate with need, people will lose housing.

These sweeping program eliminations... are the equivalent of taking a meat axe to the HUD budget.

SHOP is essential, essential seed money for what they are doing.

It is especially troubling that your budget would eliminate the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.

I cannot find in this budget any evidence of taking that vision seriously.

We are here to think boldly, we are here to think big, and rise above petty partisan squabbling.

This is the definition of a boondoggle, Mr. Chairman. We all heard about the 'Bridge to Nowhere.' It is safe to call this the 'Train from Nowhere to Nowhere.'

These future interstates could serve as the pilot programs to test and demonstrate innovative policy reforms that save taxpayer money.

I appreciate their hard work.

These corridors are critical to the economy and security of the United States.

I thank the committee for their previous support of the civil liberty language and ask that it be included again in the next appropriations bill.

This results in a wasteful program that is invasive in the least, and at worst is an abuse of power and the violation of our civil liberties.

We must also look for ways to spend money more efficiently.

None of the funds made available by this act may be used to obligate or award funds for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Roadside Survey.

I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it.

So right now the public can go to Congress if the FAA is unresponsive.

Critical programs and oversight activities addressed by the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies bill fall under the purview as well.

Mr. Beyer, you had direct experience in seeing the interaction between Federal and local levels of government in that emergency situation with the Christmas flood back in 2015.

We have to find a way to stop this paralysis by analysis and get America building again while still protecting our environment.