Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick: “Today I rise to express my trepidation over the potentially ominous precedent that the impending impeachment proceeding…”

I think when President Obama put in the recovery package the $8-plus billion for intercity rail, high speed passenger corridor that we are talking about today, high speed rail, that it may have been a little premature just in terms of the…

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 think we do ourselves a disservice, with limited funds; $8 billion sounds like a lot, but it is not a lot of money for these United States of America.

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…