I am concerned about the process and getting a good plan that is better than that the last sort of random plan that didn't work so well.

I understand that. I have been on this committee 26 years, and as I have said many times, there is only one agency worse at acquisition and other sorts of decisions than the Pentagon, and that would be the FAA.

Doesn't that seem like a pretty high false alarm rate because they were all false alarms?

Finally, when you go to an inline system and you have the standalone units, what do you do with those standalone units?

People are going to die if we continue to make these asinine decisions.

What percent of false alarms do you allow?

Right, but we have airports that don't have any EDS, we have 54 in stock and we keep a large number in stock so that when someone finishes their inline system sometime in the next 12 months, we will have machines there to go.

Thank you for holding this very important hearing.

We are very skeptical of RTOs. I helped lead the fight against the RTO in our region.

We have particular problems with wind integration in the Northwest.

We are definitely not anti-wind. We have to figure out how to integrate them.

Congressman Schrader recently joined together with Congressman Peter DeFazio and Congressman Greg Walden to release the 'O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act.'

Congestion, density, population density, that is where high-speed rail needs to focus on.

But I would point out that the Federal Transit Administration, under the leadership of the former Secretary and President Bush, was actually using Federal taxpayer dollars with routine waivers to build prototype transit vehicles overseas.

Determining whether or not hydraulic fracturing waste water disposal has any potential negative impacts on public health or the environment should not be a cause for alarm.

I hope we can all agree that, so far, EPA's fact-finding efforts regarding hydrofracking waste water disposal can hardly be seen as caustic to business or job creation.

In my view, the growing national debate on hydraulic fracturing is less about whether this Nation will develop its domestic natural gas resources, and is more about how natural gas production should be developed and regulated to protect…

we want to see a greater proportion, if not all, of the revenue that comes into the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund expended for the purposes for which it is assessed

we have to write an energy and water appropriations bill that spends the money

we can have every hearing we want...but it does not get us to the Promised Land

This is a truly wild area... it does merit special designation as a wilderness.

I have my doubts--it would be necessary, I believe, for other forms of infrastructure.

Tax cuts don't seem to build infrastructure. They don't seem to put people back to work, either.

I think this is critical for our overall investment deficit.

I think some companies find that inconvenient.