Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick: “Did I understand the gentleman to say that over 1.3 million children in Michigan will not be able to take advantage of…”

The people whose plants are closed, they not only lose their job, they lose their health care. They lose their pensions.

It is important that we come to today, and I want to commend the President's administration, President Obama's administration for nominating such a fine gentleman.

I am from Michigan, and I just met with the director and his team last week as it relates to a vision for transportation, and some of the dollars that are put into the recovery package, Michigan, of course, needs it, and really an ailing…

Not at this time, but I would be happy to work with you to get that. The money has been appropriated. All of the locals that have come before our committee have asked that we give them more help. Intraoperability is a major problem. They…