Bill Posey

the proposed Brightline service will run through the heart of many of my communities in my district.

Shouldn't the capital and operating costs of safety equipment be paid for by Brightline, the people who benefit from it?

Thank you again, Mr.

Do we want to sacrifice--and I think the answer is no from my standpoint--the safety of our local residents for your profit and convenience?

Who makes a determination of whether a project fits under one of the 15 categories in 142(A)?

this abysmal performance suggests a serious safety deficiency and should be immediately remedied.

You're going to require these local governments to maintain these crossings forever, yet your train is not going to stop in any of these communities.

Generally given that there's a $15 billion pool that we just talked about, how much do project sponsors request in taxes and private equity bonds?

I have written your agency twice with some serious questions about safety concerns.

This is basically an unfunded mandate from the Federal Government on local government, something that we always swear that we won't do.

we have got to worry about protecting everything in the doggone world except humans.

I know that has been one of the latest, you know, things that they have thrown out from saying absolutely, positively there will never, ever, ever be a stop in this high-speed rail.

Well, when you said, 'we,' you didn't make those agreements. Flagler made those agreements.

Shouldn't we open up the process to reexamine the safety issues in collaboration with the public?

I don't think people are all stooges, you know, and they are not that stupid to invest in a train.

The Seniors Tax Simplification Act is a simple, commonsense solution, which would provide a measure of relief for our senior citizens.

I am thinking that the entry of a firm like this with uncertain relationships to terrorist organizations should be reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

And I don't know even if it is even remotely true, but there have been posts and there have been statements to the effect that some of the principals in this cargo company might be terrorist sympathetic in one way or another.

It staggers the imagination that our government approved and purchased security software from Russia's Kaspersky Labs.

I think that Congress has kind of expressed they'd like pretty much everything you do in space to be a stepping-stone to Mars.

I think everyone here in this room understands we want to go Mars for a number of reasons, as a launching area, the potential of fuel there.

Whenever you hear something or whenever I hear something like International Standards Act, antennas go up.

The obvious conclusion or observation I would make is maybe we should be moving our standards for the rest of the world, not us conforming with their standards.

I don't see that. If it is after the fact, I don't see the interference in decision-making.

I've never met anyone who wants to have dirty air or dirty water for themselves, their family, or future generations.