This is extraordinary, and I just find this very, very hard to believe.

I have been involved in the fight over mining reform, and I did the royalty amendment back in 1994.

I disagree strongly with the Office of Management and Budget that the safe and secure county rural schools funds are subject to sequestration.

We are continuing some of the work that I think you had identified and had GAO do with regard to additional studies on the impact of detention time on driver safety.

I just got--my most recent numbers I have are that the National State of Good Repair Assessment estimates that $77.7 billion of the assets for the entire transit industry are past their expected period of reliable service.

the critical worker protections provided by the 2012 Final Rule did not go into effect as planned

the new Transit Safety Oversight Program, what is going to happen to that with sequestration in terms of implementation?

I mean, if you see this cliff coming, you know, have you made the States aware of it, because if they have a 2-year project where the payout would be in 2015, that might be a problem.

In the last Congress, MAP-21 was one of the few products of any note, and it did provide for essentially a status quo continuation of our existing service transportation programs; however, as we know from numerous commission reports and…

I have been on an issue for quite some time now, and we are talking about the logbooks and we are talking about safety, that is all great, but you know, I know, people in the audience know that a lot of truckers are detained past their…

I wanted to reiterate the comments of my colleagues about the importance of comprehensive immigration reform.

Our systems are deteriorating more quickly than we are repairing them and we are failing to undertake major new initiatives to get people out of congestion, make the country more competitive in the world, and we are lagging far, far, far…

keeping our transit system safe goes hand in hand with bringing our aging systems into a state of good repair.

It has been, you know, a given since the founding of the Nation, George Washington with canals, Abraham Lincoln with railroads, Dwight David Eisenhower with highways, and Ronald Reagan incorporating transit into the Highway Trust Fund…

I mean, we killed some people here in DC because of the outmoded equipment, and so I am sure elsewhere we have problems.

I am hopeful that your agency would be supportive and helpful in that effort.

There is a theory that the catch will become so much more valuable that...

The fishermen should carry more of the burden.

It seems like we would all come out ahead.

Sen. Harkin and Rep. DeFazio reintroduced a financial transaction tax bill, which was then referred again to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees.

Which would be twice the size of your current State lands?

And it is new and a very, very highly regarded science.

Well, I think the pilot project that would be suggested, the collaboration effort between the partners, would obviously identify the track of land for the pilot project itself.

I think that would be a problem. I mean that has been a discussion in Oregon, our private lands are managed under State forest practices.

I think your legislature is proposing legislation. Who would pick the lands?