In my way of thinking, ensuring America has an updated transportation infrastructure is a key responsibility of government.
skin in the game
With a $12 trillion and growing deficit, we cannot continue to throw Federal funds at projects, willy-nilly.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you for holding the important hearing.
In the Heartland, highways don't work unless you have a bridge across the river.
It is simply not enough to say it is complicated and we have a plan soon.
We are borrowing from our children and our grandchildren.
I am kind of embarrassed to tell my son and--if he and his wife have children, tell my grandchildren--"Oh. I'm sorry. We've been spending--w...
I hope that you will look at how you can streamline that to--they are telling me I have got one minute left on the vote.
We all have the same goal to make sure that the communities in States around this country... are thriving parts of every State in the Union.
Sometimes those numbers are pretty scary, because it's the taxpayer dollar that we're putting at risk.