Hansen Clarke: “I am asking Congress, let us help rebuild this city because we can renew America's economy.”

My major concern is about the security of our power systems, our power grid, or airports, especially our municipal drinking water and sewage systems.

I completely agree with you--completely. I thank God I was born in this country.

We actually need this type of investment, and that is because our State and our local units of government, they don't have the revenue to be able to provide for the staffing and the equipment that we need to better protect our people.

We cannot afford to make deep funding cuts that emphasize the cost of a program over their true worth.