It is hard enough to get money if there is a grand plan, but it is impossible if Congress doesn't see something that looks worthwhile.

This oversight hearing where you see me asking lots of questions really has more to do with educating me.

The Congress will see this as interests who depend one upon another.

Have you ever thought about that or had those discussions with anyone connected with the Corporation?

Well, how in the world did that occur? It was a train station first and foremost.

That is understandable. But the fact that you found yourselves on the outside looking in from the beginning, that is unfortunate.

If you all don't get together and make a deal, don't even come here.

DDOT has made a formal request that all of these facilities be put at Union Station.

Any project this monumental is necessarily incremental.

The Capitol Hill community doesn't want those buses coming down the street.

Because, of course, they are trying to not be at odds with their own climate change policy and their own congestion policy.

If this vision that Congress talks about all the time is to come about, guess what? Congress is going to have to come up with some funds too.