Roger Wicker

I think you told me the other day that you feel you are off to a good start?

Thank you, Senator Booker, and I appreciate your remarks. And it was a pleasure and an honor to work with you on the FAST Act.

Louisiana has had very little support until their new Governor was elected, and now they are very supportive of what we do.

It appears to me that passenger rail is one of the solutions to distracted driving.

My advice has been for a considerable period of time is something you have already done, which is put this in the Surface Transportation Bill.

Thank you, Mayor Ross.

Thank you very much.

I was on that train ride along with--I went from New Orleans to Pascagoula, and Corrine Brown began with us.

Would you agree that our previous experiment with Amtrak across the gulf coast, though desirable, was not an overwhelming success?

I think it is remarkable that we have had 10 Senators participate in this subcommittee hearing.

Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the state of passenger rail in the South and the work you did to make this possible through the FAST Act.

What specifically should we do? What steps should this committee and this Congress take to reverse these trends?

Our Army in the future risks being too small to secure the Nation.

What does that mean for our Nation's security?

We are outranged and outgunned by many potential adversaries.

Would you tell the committee what it means to be outranged by Russia?

It's abundantly clear to me that Putin will continue to test American and NATO resolve during the remaining year of the Obama Administration.

Well, we look forward to seeing an accurate force structure based on the current threats.

Let's speak it out loudly and clearly from both sides of this table, and make it clear that what is at stake is nothing less than the national security of Americans.

Of course, the unthinkable happened, and we had to deal with it.

If we could find the money, sir, would you support acceleration of the LX(R) ship competition?

Has anything happened around the world since that determination was made that would make us revise that force structure?

China continues to have success in cyber espionage against the U.S. Government, our allies, and U.S. companies.

You have all been excellent witnesses. This has been a most informative 1 hour and 50 minutes.

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