Anthony Foxx: “If we can eliminate that 10 percent, we save lives.”

I want to thank you for what I would call your ferocious advocacy on behalf of safety and on behalf of the workers and users of the system.

I want to thank you for being such a great voice for the need to fix the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund and for long-term stability in the funding.

It is imperative. In this case the cost of delay is measured in lost members of our families, of pain and suffering, and the denial of economic, health and social opportunity for the elderly, disabled and the impoverished.

As you know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.