I want to really commend Chair Payne for choosing to focus on this important issue.
We've really starved investment in passenger rail capacity while lavishing generous Federal matches on highway funding.
All States that want to step into the 21st century with high-speed rail are going to need more Federal support to do it.
I think it is important that we do that with an eye toward the 21st century, making sure we 'build back better.'
Let me congratulate you on your big announcement today, a plan to completely eliminate carbon emissions from your power supply by 2030.
As we have heard from our witnesses here today, there is an enormous economic upside to climate action.
We face an imperative to create resilient infrastructure and confront inequities that have devastated communities.
if you are endlessly fixing a section of highway that keeps failing, you shouldn't use expensive Band-Aids forever; you should find a perman...
The last administration was completely unsympathetic to this problem.
we have got to build back better with an eye toward climate impacts
this is the best opportunity we are going to see in our lifetimes to do something big and transformative