Jim Inhofe: “I want to be sure to get that in the record here, so that we will be facing that perhaps in the future.”

I am concerned that the Department of Transportation may not award or may unfairly limit future grant funding to eligible projects simply because those projects do not meet the Administration's overarching policy goals.

There is no state that is more dependent upon the issues that are brought in this Committee hearing, and this is the reason I got on it in the first place.

Nothing is being done. I came to this meeting because it is apparently the White House that is stopping this or delaying this.

I really believe that we have an opportunity to yield to the pressures that are out there on overregulation.