Peter DeFazio actually said...

"I did, after a long battle, get a provision in the bill that says any additional real funds allocated by Congress will immediately flow through the policies in this bill."

"We must find a solution immediately to a very real and very looming funding crisis in order to make reauthorization possible."

"the President's budget, which again proposes, you know, cuts pretty much across the board in transportation"

"It is going to be the first 21st-century authorization, and it will be different than the repetitive things we have done, building on the Eisenhower legacy."