Ray LaHood

If transportation is a priority, if people see transportation as a jobs bill, if they look at our budget as a jobs budget, then we're going to have to sit with the Congress and figure out how to pay for it.

We've requested additional expertise, particularly as it relates to electrical engineers.

The simple fact is that we have to cut and consolidate things that aren't growing the economy, creating jobs, or making it easier to do business.

NextGen is really about safety. It's about saving jet fuel.

We think that this is a good way to continue the progress that we've made and keep things moving.

The budget adds 119 new staff in the vehicle safety area.

This problem has been kicked down the road for 10 years.

It's up to us whether we do big things or whether we do nothing.

If we want businesses to open shop and hire our families, friends, and neighbors, we have to invest in our roadways, railways, and runways.

We believe that, with respect to Toyota, the sticky pedal and the floormat entrapment were the cause of that terrible accident in California.

Transportation has always been bipartisan.

When I read about the people who had their numbers exempted from the public record, I thought this is not what the program is about.

This is a priority for us because it is a priority for all of you.

We are committed big-time to roads and bridges, over $300 billion for roads and bridges.

We think the trucking industry is vital.

We want to enhance freight rail.

I want everybody to know that if the bill that passed the House is passed in the Senate, the last line of that bill says that any funds not obligated by February 11 will come back to the Treasury.

If we choose wisely, our legacy can be an economy on the move and a future that America is prepared to win.

It is up to us whether we lay a new foundation for economic growth, competitiveness, and opportunity.

America's transportation system is at a crossroads.

There's no shortage of interest for the $2.3 billion that we're going to reallocate from Florida.

The President's budget has requested that the Build America Bonds be made permanent.

If transportation is a priority, if people see transportation as a jobs bill, if they look at our budget as a jobs budget, then we're going to have to sit with the Congress and figure out how to pay for it.

We think that's a very good program.

High-speed rail is a priority for this administration.