How much of the capital program funds do you anticipate will be repaid next week, in the next 6 months, next year?

No law is going to be perfect. But this law will encourage people to abide by the law rather than break it.

For those who oppose this act, citing concerns of fraud, I counter with what our immigration officials themselves tell me.

New Starts has been incredibly important to my home State.

I think New Starts is a great idea, and I am glad you are having this hearing.

We have an administration that understands and is willing to invest in the growing demand for transit.

You cannot rob Peter to pay Paul. Mass transit funds are more precious than ever, and we must dismiss any future proposal to subtract funding from mass transit.

If you could change one thing about the New Starts program, what would it be so that the next nationally significant project can complete the process in less than a decade?

I had mentioned in my testimony to maybe have sort of like a procurement process, where every year, once a year, properties that are interested in applying for the New Starts program have to submit their proposal.

Senator Schumer mentioned something that we have all regionally been working on and break ground Monday, I understand, the new Trans-Hudson Rail Tunnel project.

The time has come for us to help people like Ms. Tan and to make the promise of America real for this sympathetic segment to the American population who is adversely and irrationally affected by our current immigration law.