"Thank you, sir. Ms. Quarterman, what steps are being taken to ensure the safe, secure shipment of chlorine and other toxic gases?"
"my area is the home of the Corridor of National Significance, rail-truck corridor, 100 trains a day, 50,000 trucks through my district."
"How can we be confident of that?"
"My concern is, like in California, they try to go to a tandem 53-footer, which cannot navigate the on-ramps and off-ramps in our freeways."
"And the answer to the bridges? You know, the truck freight is not being factored in, supposedly, according to our information."
"So I agree with Mayor Bennett that Federal involvement to help move goods is critical."
"The bills we are hearing today have a common theme: increasing our water supplies, to which we have no objection."
"If we are looking for solutions to our water problems, and for certainty for our communities, then we must have full consideration of all our options."
"The Majority want to argue that the environmental regulations have hindered construction of new facilities in the West."
"Most of the voters that vote for these things are in southern California."
"We do need faster transportation in the North."
"We are a donor State to the rest of the Nation in many areas."