I want to carry on from where the Chair was going with this question.

You are working in an environment, physical environment, and leaving that aside, are also subject to the political environment here in Washington.

Congresswoman Edwards, thank you very much. I have known you for the almost 4 years that I have been here. The passion that you have for the American people is unmatched. Your willingness to stand for them has been seen in many pieces of…

One of the reasons is this: this is the infrastructure investment from 2002 to 10 years later. That is about an $85 billion reduction in infrastructure investment. I wanted just to drive home the point that you have made about putting…

You are talking about some really, really important issues here. Bridges falling down?

Thank you so very much, Mr. Horsford. Thank you for your passion, for your knowledge, for your concern about your constituents, and particularly about those men and women that are from the military. I also have two major Air Force bases in…

Representative Kaptur, you have been at this for a long time. You come from an area in this Nation that in recent decades has been called the Rust Belt. I think that is not the situation, with your leadership. We have seen a resurgence in…

Thank you very much, General Enyart. Joining us also is another Representative from the Midwest who has considerable experience here in the House of Representatives--Ohio, in this case--Marcy Kaptur. Welcome. I am delighted you are with…

Mr. Blumenauer, there is no doubt that you are taking up the responsibility. You have been a leader for many years on this issue of transportation, how we can fund it, what we must do. I guess I knew, but I didn't realize it was coming so…

We have an opportunity today to talk about some things that are really important to America. I want to start really with this quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt which kind of talks about where I am coming from and where I think we ought to…

Just before we came on the floor to talk about this issue of inequality in America and how we might deal with it, we heard our colleagues from the State of New York talk about the tragic transit accident that occurred. In listening to…

Mr. Blumenauer, you are bringing about a very important piece of legislation that will help us finance the systems that we need to build. We talk about immediate jobs. In talking about those immediate jobs, for every dollar that we would…