Peter DeFazio actually said...

"This needs to be a coordinated Federal system. We need to go heavily into the 21st century in new technologies and look at all the options before us."

"I have proposed something that is so de minimus that it is just embarrassing that we can't do it."

"The States can't do it on their own. They are trying."

"If we don't pay for it, we are going to waste a hell of a lot more money."