Peter DeFazio

There is a big question about whether you could find them eligible for reimbursement.

We do not want to get in--the Jones Act to get in the way of life safety.

The President's proposed budget cut pre-disaster mitigation by 61 percent, not going in the right direction.

Hopefully, we can learn from this and we can build in such a way that they will better serve their citizens in future events like this, which are becoming all too frequent.

I want to hear more about the infrastructure problems that are inhibiting the distribution, and what we can do about that in the short and the long term.

I hope, once and for all, to put to rest the idea that somehow the Jones Act is inhibiting the recovery of Puerto Rico.

Twenty-nine percent of Puerto Ricans have power, is the estimate. And this is definitely not something that I would rate as a 10-plus, as the President has rated our response.

I am certain there is still tremendous displacement in southern Florida and Texas.

I think--and if you have ideas on this, some States have already gone up to the bar, taken the risk.

I think it points to the absolute essential need for us to have a robust, long-term spending stream.

Almost every large P3 out there is substantially funded by the Federal Government.

There is a really interesting new statistic, which is that the average toll rate per mile for a P3 toll road is $.30, and the average rate for a non-P3 toll road is $.14.

That is not a solution, and it is not even the major tool in the toolbox, and it can't be.

If you look at America's broad infrastructure needs, P3s with the best facilitation through law can deal with somewhere between 10 and 12 percent of our infrastructure needs.

Actually, the Republicans took a very substantive step last week on transportation and infrastructure. They cut it $25 billion in their budget.

We can do this in a bipartisan way, but all we are doing is talking.

Transportation does not end at State lines. So we need the Federal investment, as the chairman said.

I was sad to see that the President basically proposed to kill Amtrak yet again.

We are going to put up $200 billion, source unknown, of Federal money.

We have seen nothing concrete--not to make a bad pun--from this administration or the White House.

It is interesting. I have been both to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and I didn't observe any discrepancy.

I would hope that you would ask for a very, very robust number, you know, and not--and, I think, Admiral Z has been getting more and more outspoken on this.

I have been critical of the Coast Guard in one respect on these issues, which is you are always too nice.

Don't you believe that at least some of these icebreakers should be militarized? I mean, given the potential for conflict in the Arctic?

I am not necessarily talking about a warship that is designed for warfighting, but something that is robust enough and has defensive capabilities.