David Price: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Greetings, Administrator, glad to have you here.”

We are asking a heck of a lot of our teachers and our staff while paying them too little.

Believe me, this is long overdue. This was one of the more visionary aspects of the Obama recovery plan--$8 billion, in that instance, applied to passenger rail development.

First of all, the case you make for the authorization--the permanent authorization or CDBG-DR, we do need that.

I remember when I first became chair of this subcommittee some years ago, we had a hearing with ICE.