How would we feel if folks over in Maryland were somehow polluting whether it is the air or the water that comes over and diminishes our ability to make a living?

good to see you and our friend from Utah. I feel compelled to go back in time, if I could. This is a question a lot of people ask me back home and around the country: Where did ObamaCare come from? The part where most people think of…

I want to preface my remarks today by asking that you convey to your wingman, Senator John McCain, our colleague, our best wishes and our hope that he is on his way to a speedy recovery and will be back here because we need him. We need…

I would be remiss if I did not mention the new provisions in this bill to reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay program, the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act.

Different uniforms, same team.

I was privileged to be Governor of our State from 1993 to 2001, and it was at a time when I think you said there was a score, if you will, for the restoration of the Bay gave a 34, said it is the best it has been for quite a while.

But without a plan waiting in the wings to replace those rules, that means that the Treasury Department risks a new outbreak of the inversion virus.

And we all remember when Henry Ford said, 'Look, I want to be successful. For me to be successful, working people have to have the money to buy my cars.'

I want to begin by saying that everyone here wishes Senator McCain a full and speedy recovery.

We underfund the IRS. We ask them to do more than is humanly possible.

What is needed is bipartisan tax reform that focuses on progressivity and helping the middle class.

I think it would be fair to say that stirred a lot of interest on our side of the aisle.

Any advice for what we should do with respect to funding the IRS? Please?

I am going to use that.

Underfunding the IRS is like underfunding your accounts receivable department. No rational business would do that.

I am one of those glass half-full people, and I try to find the good in every situation.

Did the three of you rehearse this before the hearing started? That was pretty good.

It is an important source of low cost financing, as we know, for thousands of critical projects across our country, and that includes Delaware.

The President's budget proposed to increase TIFIA's contract authorities we know to, I think, about $1 billion per year.

I would say you got 9s and 10s from Delaware, and my guess is from other States, too.

I sometimes say I learn more from my mistakes than the things I do right, and maybe this was a good lesson for us to learn from a mistake.

This has been a good hearing, and I was mentioning, in a sidebar conversation with the Chairman, you are exceptionally good witnesses; very knowledgeable and very clear and concise in your responses.

The President has called on Congress to expand the TIFIA program in order to encourage more non-Federal investments, and--stop the presses--I think he is right.

I want to welcome our new pages. They have been here all of 24 hours or so. I talked to some of them earlier today. They come from all over this country, and we welcome each of them. I understand they are with us for 3 weeks, and we wish…

Are you ready for another one?