If you don't trust the Afghan Government, you should never give them $2.6 billion. This is on top of the $5 billion that they were to receive. This money was specifically added to the budget for the Afghan military to buy something--parts…

And my good friends who serve on these committees with me, this is not about the President and this is not about missile defense. This is about the unnecessary expenditure of a very important national asset--our money. Testimony given in…

Mr. Delaney, that is a fascinating way of bringing capital to this program. California has numerous high-technology companies, Apple and many, many others. All of them come to us, representatives from California, and they complain about…

I think you did. I was trying to grasp the totality of it. It is a process in which now this is a piece of legislation; it's here in the House. I would hope that our colleagues on the Republican side that control the passage of…

And a very sound investment was made in you and your brother, who I believe is the mayor of San Antonio.

Mr. Castro, you put that so very well. It's a critical investment that the American public makes in the next generation so that this economy can move forward. There is also--we've been debating this on the floor--a bill that passed out of…

There are so many different things that we could talk about in this process. This is a piece of legislation that, actually, I've introduced for the last couple of years. This particular piece of legislation, H.R. 1524, says, if it's your…

There's much to learn about that. But, again, if you go back to our Make It In America agenda, these issues, the labor market and education, fit into that infrastructure of opportunity. I've always said that if you're going to build an…

I thought for a moment you were going to go into more detail about your own personal emotions as you stop in every one of these towns on your way to see your fiancee, but we'll let that go for another time.

Mr. Castro, thank you so very, very much. Often, in fact, I've talked about infrastructure in a physical way, that is, the physical features of roads and water systems. But your discussion of infrastructure being the infrastructure of…

We will continue to work on this, and we will talk about it again in the future. California is the most populous State. I didn't say ``popular,'' although I would certainly say that. Texas being the second biggest in geography. We now have…

Mr. Delaney, thank you very, very much. Obviously, Maryland is very well represented with some innovative thinking from their Representatives. Infrastructure banks are not new. This is a new way of financing it, and a very exciting one…