David Price: “There must be discretion.”

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.

I implore you to see what is at stake here as Fort Bragg needs this investment to be able to respond to the next global crisis.

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

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