I must say I share the Chair's skepticism about this whole idea.

Small refiners are concerned that RFS, as it exists, has created an economically untenable situation for many companies.

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

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.

Thank you very much.

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.

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

We have to keep it on time.

Thank you to Senator Booker for the work he did just on the RRIF loans where he really hung out there to make some changes on that.

Mississippi with Senator Wicker and Governor Bryant have been extremely supportive of us of late.

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

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

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.

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

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

Thank you, Mayor Ross.

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?

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

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

What does that mean for our Nation's security?

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.

We are outranged and outgunned by many potential adversaries.