Bob Menendez

What I object to is pouring huge amounts of money into transit with the thought that we are going to significantly reduce auto driving.

The climate legislation the Senate is drafting offers an opportunity to fund transit networks in a way that will unlock our carbon cutting potential.

If we do not provide substantial resources in the Senate's comprehensive climate bill to fund clean transportation infrastructure projects and incentivize sensible land use policies around those projects, then we will fail to adequately…

Is it fair to say that that type of policy created very significant investments, drove investments at the end of the day?

I think it is one of the important things we need to look at.

We have spent in the last transportation bill $200 billion on highways. Now, that is a subsidy.

Transit becomes the key tool in the long run for trying to change them again.

I have expressed my concerns about this announcement about an 18-month delay I know we are talking about in dealing with these issues.

My concern, again, is that it is basically advisory and it has no power to carry out corrective actions.

If we have institutions that are too big to fail, have we not failed already because they create systemic risk?

I think it takes a pretty short memory to ignore what got us into this crisis and dismiss the need for accountability.

We cannot have effective regulation without more transparency.

Regulators must be focused and empowered aggressive watchdogs rather than passive enablers of reckless practices.

To rebuild confidence in our financial system, both here at home and around the world, we must reconstruct our regulatory framework.

Stronger consumer protection I believe would have stopped this crisis before it started.

I consider myself a fellow traveler, but I have never been anywhere in the world, either on nonproliferation issues or talking about nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, when I don't walk in a room and someone doesn't ask me to give…

Senator Lugar quickly identified at the fall of the Soviet Union the opportunity for us to have a take down of the Soviet Union in the most responsible way.

A most emphatic yes to that.

We do feel that the Federal funding level should be significantly increased.

Review timetables need to be balanced against the need to progress through the process with a focus on completion.

I welcome that discipline.

Then we are not going to have a rail line.

The funding is absolutely critical, $123 billion is absolutely necessary over the 6-year period for transit in the new bill.

Now, it appears to me, is the time to unleash transit.

Helping the world's most vulnerable nations adapt to climate change is a moral obligation, but it is also essential in securing a climate treaty.