"I want to join others on the committee in thanking our witnesses for your good work and your forthright testimony here today."
"These are news reports. They indicate that the State Department and international assistance budget may be cut by as much as a third."
"One of the most alarming aspects of that budget was the proposed cuts, deep cuts for the State Department and USAID funding."
"Investing in transportation infrastructure keeps us safe and improves our economy, it creates jobs."
"We really have come together, as we must come together, as an institution and as a country, I believe, in face of this."
"I do not accept that the HUD budget before us is a necessary product of fiscal responsibility."
"We have some serious challenges. We are ready to take them on."
"I do not see much other than just indiscriminate meat axe cutting, to tell you the truth."
"the administration seems to be saying that Democratic oversight has no legitimacy, that oversight is only the prerogative of the majority party."
"This hearing is an important opportunity for us as appropriators to examine the emerging technologies in the transportation sector."
"Finally, the Trump administration to-date has shown a blatant disregard for addressing possible conflicts of interest, starting with, but limited to, the man at the top."