"For the past 8 years, we have had to work with an administration that appeared to be ideologically opposed to funding extensions to transit systems."
"I have been getting money in the transportation bill because WMATA needs the First Street tunnel."
"I mean, that is the most outrageous thing I have ever heard."
"There are going to be howls unless we are able to say more about what we are doing with training."
"I do agree with you, Mr. Chairman, regarding how we must use the stimulus exercise, shall we call it."
"What we did was to go to the Senate, frankly, and indicate that this was a classic FDR project."
"But above all, thank you for the way in which you are tracking these funds and making good on your promise that this money had to be used or lost."
"I want to see the timeline within two weeks for spending the $4.5 billion dollars for Saint Elizabeth's."
"Including, for example, if somebody, you know, these incidents that we had here; and the one which is most indelibly in our minds, of course, is the incident that occurred here in the Capitol."
"And there is also no question in my mind that if you have this attached to both bills, it is law."
"It doesn't make sense."