John Garamendi

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 29, line 2, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $25,000,000)''. Page 57, line 11, after the dollar amount…

Your team has done a terrific job in the Sacramento Valley region, and it is much appropriated.

I would really urge you to engage deeply with those partners early in the project and on the consultation

The problem is ours. We are the ones who set the pace here.

I particularly want to express my appreciation for the willingness of the Corps to deal with some very complex issues on the Sacramento River system.

The Coast Guard is indispensable to commerce, to this Nation's security, and environmental protection of this Nation.

Why don't we take the Texas standard, put it in place?

We could write laws that protect the public. We have the basic information.

Why don't we write in to that legislation the regulations that are forever stuck in OMB that have been written by the two organizations here that speak to tank car safety standards, that speak to volatility, speak to tracks maintenance…

Mr. Tonko, thank you so very much for joining us tonight and your leadership on this whole range of issues. It is about tomorrow. Tomorrow will be solid for America if we build a solid foundation, and that foundation is the infrastructure…

Your leadership on the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit is exceedingly important. All of us look forward to your success and the success of all of us in building America's infrastructure. We have about a little less than 5 minutes…

It seems to me that one of the important things we ought to be considering as we deal with this AUMF is that it will be expensive, or have some expense, for the taxpayers of the United States.

3 years requires that the next Presidential election be about war.

The 2001 AUMF proves the reason for a sunset; an unending war can't continue it.

We have a responsibility. We represent the American people... and we have the obligation to deal with this.

To use the 2001 or the 2002 AUMF as a reason for a new war... is, in my estimation, just dead wrong.

In my view it is absolutely essential for Congress to act.

Mr. Nolan, I thank you so very much. The folks in the northern Minnesota area are blessed to have you return after a 32-year hiatus. You came back with a fire in your belly, and you are ready to go.

You were just singing my song there. This Bay Bridge, why was it $3.9 billion over? Because the steel was unsatisfactory. It was low quality, it had cracks in it, it didn't meet the requirements, they had to go back and redo the…

Well, here it is, the San Francisco Bay Bridge built with Chinese steel. They built a brand-new, one of the most advanced steel mills, making one of the most advanced types of steel in China-- 3,000 Chinese jobs, zero American. Then the…

There is no doubt about it--you can ruin your car real fast. That 5-mile road was a county road, I assume, it was not your personal road?

Well, you had an opportunity to learn about the private sector and learn about the necessity of transportation; and I think your business was dependent on that, both to get the materials to your lumber mill and then to export.

I want to thank the witnesses for their testimony today, the work that you do.

Well, we have two critical issues here that are kept secret from the Congress. Not a good thing to do.

So it is stuck in OMB.