I thank both Ranking Member Brown of the Rail Subcommittee, who's leading this legislation on the floor tonight, and Chairman Petri, the chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee, for their leadership and also directing in a bipartisan manner…

Congresswoman DeLauro's bill would do, so it is not able to leverage or gear its own capitalization by issuing debt.

I have been a strong proponent of creative and innovative financing methods, especially in a time when we have limited Federal resources.

the bipartisan infrastructure bank that Senator Kerry and Senator Hutchison have introduced maintains ownership of the corporation by the Federal Government.

it is the policy of this administration to reduce the miles traveled per person.

we can't continue to have an aviation system that relies on 1950s and 1960s, even 1970s, technology

the idea that somehow it is all or nothing is an unacceptable economic proposition.

I yield myself 1 minute. Again, I think it's important that we pass this bipartisan extension. We wouldn't be here passing a combination of the transportation, highway, transit and FAA extensions if we hadn't taken action that was…

I was thinking how do you get all these regulations. We are deluged with thousands of Federal regulations.

I yield myself 30 seconds. Again, just to deal with facts and reality, I think Mr. Cantor, myself, and others on the Republican side support transportation, building the country's infrastructure and jobs. But we have to look at what took…

I would like to yield 1\3/4\ minutes to one of our vice chairs, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hanna).

If the Federal Government gets involved, the project takes three times as long and costs three times as much.