I experienced two of the transportation bills while I was Governor of the State of Ohio, and I am glad that Governor Rendell is here and Mayor Novak.

I think it is important that we get this done on time, because even though we have the stimulus bill, we need to know where we are going, not only in terms of our infrastructure, but also in terms of the economy.

We have a really awful infrastructure problem in this Country, and you have heard the other Senators talk about other countries.

if the Governors got together... you could have a major, major impact on what we are doing.

You can't do it. You know it and everybody else knows it and it is about time we leveled with people.

A gas tax increase on the Federal level would help, but it is not in and of itself the long-term answer.

They have had an application pending in your Department since last year.

I want to publicly thank you for your leadership in getting our staffs together to begin to try to make sure that we get this transportation bill done on time.

It is going to take a gas tax increase and it is going to take public-private partnerships and it is going to take a whole lot of other stuff to get the job done.

Then what you tell them is, I am sorry, folks, we are not going to be able to do the job that needs to be done in our Country.

Nuclear power is not to be feared, but to be respected.

they now look at safety culture as part of their reactor oversight process, which they didn't before.