One of the things that Congressman Oberstar and I have learned is that there is supposed to be money set aside for bridge maintenance, but oftentimes that money goes to building new projects.

I appreciate this. Sounds like a very interesting discussion.

We should make it very clear that our banks cannot deal with financial institutions and banks from these jurisdictions that don't comply with the highest standards of regulation.

I am in favor of better regulation of behavior, as Dr. Hoenig laid out, but I am afraid that we have seen time and again, all our regulators, particularly around big finance, get captured.

I have to get used to these things on the House side.

We cannot do this in a cocoon.

I think we will be working a lot together because I do not just serve on this Committee but, like Senator Lautenberg, also serve on the Environmental Committee where we are doing the transportation bill in the coming year.

The Europeans are using it as a smokescreen for their own regulation failure.

We have a number of healthy banks in Minnesota, our community banks.

I am working on some legislation--and I hope others will join me--with the upcoming reauthorization of the transportation bill.

That is a simple test.