Unfortunately, we still have problems in getting the money out, and this isn't something that should be a surprise.

The stimulus bill, too, if you go back and look at the arguments to sell it, was sold as an infrastructure bill.

Well, we look forward to working with you both and getting the money out, getting people working, and then making certain that the money that we spend goes on good projects that are spent with the best interest of the taxpayer in mind.

this program would spend out at only 2.4 percent. They were dead wrong; it spent out at 64 percent.

Not all by what we put in the legislation. We wanted good reporting and be good stewards of the taxpayers' money.

If we had the full 60--we will just round it off, we will say $60 billion out and you get 28 to 34,000--and we will round that out, to 30,000 jobs per billion dollars in infrastructure investment, we would have 1.8 million people working.

I would like to do a lot more in expediting the red tape and the hoops and all the delays like the bridge in Minneapolis.

We wanted to do $120 billion to $150 billion, and we could have done it.

The most important thing we can do is get people working, and what a difference it does make in their lives.

I think when we passed at least our portion of the stimulus bill, and you have to remember, out of $787 billion, less than 7 percent was transportation and infrastructure-related.

We passed on September 28th a $30 billion measure.

I do want to start out first, before I comment on the topic at hand, to express my sincere condolences to the family of Bill DeCota.