As Senator Capito knows, and some of our colleagues know as well, I ended up moving to Delaware when I got out of the Navy at the end of the Vietnam war.

Hopefully we will have an announcement before too long that the baseball strike is over, and we can say, play ball.

I do want to thank him for actually introducing that and giving us that authority.

We provided substantially more funds for the Transportation Alternative Program, increasing it from $850 million to $1.4 billion.

There is a lot of interface, as you know, with the work we do on this Committee.

I ask unanimous consent to submit for the record a guidance document from 2004 released by the Administration of George Herbert Walker Bush.

I think on commitments per minute, that probably got the most commitments of anybody who has questioned him today.

We have a highway to nowhere that was built in downtown Baltimore that very much negatively impacted on the residential communities.

But we do make laws.

Thank you so much. My thanks to you and Senator Lankford for hosting this hearing, calling this hearing, and for inviting our witnesses.

I think I speak not just for Senator Capito but for all our colleagues on this Committee, it has really been a privilege for us at this point in time in our Nation's history to have a chance coming out of the worst pandemic in 100 years…

We actually do a survey on a regular basis, on a monthly basis, to see how we are doing with respect to serving people.

This law represents the single largest investment in our Nation's history with respect to our roads and bridges.

We want to maintain flexibility. But we also want to advance national priorities.

The two Cs, communicate and compromise.

one of those Federal agencies that we get a lot of feedback on--you probably do, too, Madam Chair--is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which we underfund.

Finding the starting point is always the key to solutions.

As it turns out, for the last 21 years we have been doing this, my offices up and down the State, all taken together, they are evaluating these monthly surveys: 96 percent excellent or good in terms of feedback from the people we serve.

All of us worked to enact the infrastructure law for the same reason: Because we know it will do so much to make life better for the American people.

My father, who never went beyond high school, he was a World War II veteran, GI Bill, learned how to fix wrecked cars at Burleson Oldsmobile in Beckley, West Virginia.

Everyday Americans still run into obstacles when interacting with agencies, and these obstacles are in part the result of workforce shortages.

We help people in all different kinds of ways.

The SHORRE Act is a valuable tool in clarifying the Corps' mission, modernizing the Corps, and streamlining Corps interaction with the communities it serves.

You have atoned for your sins, and we're going to go forward and do good work here.

a special thanks goes to you, Senator Carper, and to you, Congresswoman Blunt Rochester, for your leadership and your support