the high-speed rail program is under construction, it is having dramatic effects immediately in California in an area that has suffered historic underinvestment in our State.

I would love to see 100 percent.

So we cannot decide we are only going to upgrade the nuclear, we are only going to upgrade the Navy, because the enemy will move against our weak area.

I believe that we can, that America can afford survival, yes, sir.

But my point here is----

So, ultimately, the Secretary of Transportation will have the responsibility and the authority to select the individual members from a list presented by the--by those stakeholder groups.

I thought in your testimony you said there is $5 billion that would be available to the new organization.

It is essential that we have good data and good information, because we are--it is our responsibility to make choices about where to spend the taxpayers' money.

I missed part of the testimony--I think you may have answered it--for the Great Lakes issue.

the real wall, Mr. President, is the Coast Guard.

I have been beating this drum so many times, but yes, it is in the authorization--it is in the reauthorization, and we are going to try to make sure the money is there, also.

But your budget proposal doesn't provide the money to do that. Is that correct?