"One of the reasons--and I will--I am not going to ask anybody any questions, so you can relax on that. But one of the reasons that I asked to be a member of this committee, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is because, when you look across Congress, it was one of the last bastions of ..."
"I do believe in a national system, so I have listened keenly to the concerns of the Southern Rail Commission, and my partners in the Midwest, and down in Texas, and out in California, and I really do ..."
"And I was keeping faith with President Biden. I don't think there has been anyone in Government ever in the history of this country that has been so closely affiliated with travel by rail."
"Because when I voted for the transportation and infrastructure bill, I felt I was keeping faith with my railroad workers, and I was keeping faith with my rail unions that advocated for a lot of the th..."
"And I was keeping faith with my environmental activists, because they see rail and the future of rail as being one of the solutions, as a cleaner and greener solution to one of our big challenges on c..."
"The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a major victory for the American people, making the largest-ever single investment in America's crumbling infrastructure."
"During the entirety of my long congressional career, 35 years, intercity rail has had funding starts and stops, threats to be disbanded, and endured the whims of our annual appropriation process."
"The IIJA is revolutionary, providing guaranteed and robust funding levels over the next five years."
"The water infrastructure funding in the Jobs Act is a no-brainer, win-win outcome for our constituents and our environment."
"This historic level of funding will directly help communities--large and small--address the backlog of wastewater infrastructure upgrades."
"The bipartisan Jobs Act provides once-in-a-lifetime investment that will modernize our roads, bridges, rail, transit, ports, and airports."