Max Baucus: “He comes up with more new ideas, has a broader perspective on what is happening, which enables him to approach a subject…”

“He comes up with more new ideas, has a broader perspective on what is happening, which enables him to approach a subject from more angles, more ways, and he thinks more outside the box, if you will. There are many examples of that but one that comes to mind is what he did in the last ISTEA bill, focusing on intermodality, a big word but very important concept. Not just building concrete highways but all the various ways that transportation has to and should be connected. For example, the Senator will remember we had a field hearing in New York. I flew up to New York on an airplane. I didn't drive. I took a water taxi in the Delta terminal over to some pier in New York and then a taxi over to where the hearing was located. The point is that States, under the vision of the Senator from New York, can spend ISTEA dollars on a Delta water taxi. That is permissible.”