Donald Payne: “We must do better.”

The $100 billion in funding for rail projects included in this monumental law is a game changer for communities nationwide.

For the first time, this mode of transportation has guaranteed funding for multiple years.

I hope the witnesses here today will help me understand why the Department rushed to reorganize--without Congressional authorization--at a time when permanent leaders were in place in only one of the impacted offices.

Such vague explanations are little justification for setting a disruptive reorganization in motion.