Barbara Boxer

Isn't there a cost to hospital admissions?

In your report of March 2011, was this report required by Congress?

I respect the President's effort to cut the deficit during these tough times, but to do it responsibly.

All I ask you to do is tell the truth and follow the law.

Instead of doing that, they do these cuts by a thousand deaths.

In the evaluation of the Keystone XL project, will the State Department assess how increasing U.S. imports of crude oil derived from Canadian tar sands will increase the carbon intensity of the U.

I'm not going to ask you your opinion of that, but on an intellectual level I would ask you this.

I would ask that the record be kept open for 2 weeks so that our terrific witnesses here can get their comments in.

We are frontloading this program for very little cost, virtually nothing, $20 million for a half a billion dollar program

We appreciate Chairman Mica's commitment to speeding up the time it takes to deliver Federal projects.

I believe no jobs program pending in Congress is more important than making this innovative financing a reality.

Projects that should take months are taking years.

The 30/10 plan is truly important.

The unemployment rate among construction workers in California is running at 40 percent, and there is no better stimulant than to put a paycheck in a construction worker's hands on a public works project.

Thank you so much, Mr. Czyzyk. We look forward to seeing you in Washington, and maybe by May we will have a draft bill out and we will start moving on it.

Now Washington must do its part.

We need to find every dollar available for infrastructure and good projects and get it moving.

Rewarding local investment would help projects like the Gold Line Foothill extension.

Measure R was the initiative to tax ourselves a half penny to expand our public transportation system, repair our roads and highways, street repair, $40 billion generated with a half a penny over a 30-year period of time.

People ask for more money or raising taxes.

With the Federal Government's help, we will create jobs, reduce construction costs, relieve traffic congestion.

If we had all the money in the world, we would not have a problem.

I think this is another area where we could speed things up.

The beauty of TIFIA is the projects are selected by the local people.

This is a measure that the local people decided, and they went in the midst of a recession, and said, we are willing to tax ourselves because we want these projects built.