These investments are, in fact, important to the Nation.

I am really honored to be here today. I really want to welcome Chief Sund to the first hearing.

The goal of this committee has and always will be to put good policies in place without letting partisanship get in the way.

Transit is necessary.

I think clearly we put $15 billion into transit this year. Clearly that shows our willingness to support transit and the Capital Investment Grant program.

It is imperative that we look at the last 2 years of the last administration and look at what we project the next 2 years to be.

Congressman Rodney Davis from Illinois calls Louisiana his sewage treatment plant.

It keeps the decentralization. If we are worried about nefarious actors, the last thing we want as a Congress is the Federal Government being the clearinghouse for elections and registration and vote counting.

Not one witness claimed that voting machines were inherently unsafe or that paper ballots were foolproof.

This bill that the majority has proposed clearly doesn't do that.

Requiring paper ballots that will inevitably lead to longer lines is the antithesis of what my good friend, Chairwoman Fudge, had hearings throughout this country to talk about.