I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to one of the leaders of transportation, new on the committee, but a conferee; did an outstanding job, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Bucshon).

I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, it is good to be at this point in the completion of a long overdue, major transportation reform bill for the Congress and for the American people. First, I will take a moment and thank…

I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Herrera Beutler), another conferee and a young leader in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to one of the distinguished leaders in the House, the gentlelady from Illinois (Mrs. Biggert), who had a great deal to do with the flood insurance provisions--worked tirelessly.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. When the Founding Fathers created our government and established the committees in Congress, they had authorizing committees and they had appropriating committees. In 1808, the predecessor of this…

Spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, which, Mr. McLaughlin, you described very well, and we don't have, again, a secure program in place.

This is a simple right of Congress. We fund that activity of the Department of Justice. We created the Department of Justice. And we have an oversight responsibility.

I am fed up with this, really, Mr. Larsen.

What we're seeking are all of the documents relating to an incident in which and a plan in which we know first of all that the Department of Justice lied to us.

What we have in place is not acceptable. The delays are just beyond comprehension.

It would seem that this is a spotty deployment and a totally inadequate adoption of standards.

We have to do something. We have expiring cards, right?