"Thank you for your questions and I want to associate myself with your remarks in pushing for transparency."
"This is an important set of topics. I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and in particular for your focus on shielding consumers and investors from fraud, abuse, and deception."
"We must ensure that our National Surface Transportation Policy is guided by the need to promote economic growth while protecting public safety and the environment."
"I did not see anything on the Southwest."
"I therefore appreciate Secretary LaHood's strong commitment to safety and his interest in exploring innovative ways to reduce death and injury from impaired driving."
"I wonder what kind of new thinking is going on within the Department to keep pushing this in terms of lowering those numbers."
"I hope you can talk a little bit about that initiative, Secretary LaHood."
"I hope that we move like our Governor, Governor Richardson, did to push commuter rail especially in the big areas."
"President Obama's stimulus plan is helpful but--as Secretary LaHood has pointed out--it will not be enough to meet all of our Nation's transportation challenges."
"Not having the so-called management experience you can move in and really shake things up."
"As you all know, the Congress put in place the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which has specific targets in it that we have been talking about today, this 55 percent in 2010 and then 10..."