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.
It just seems to be a partisan issue here in Washington, DC.
You can't just price people off the roads and say: Hey, we solved congestion.
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.
We are wasting nearly four times as much money as we are investing on an annual basis year after year after year.
I have proposed something that is so de minimus that it is just embarrassing that we can't do it.
Let's just index the gas and diesel tax and do some bonding.
The health and wellbeing of our veterans is at stake.
I urge the Committee to take a more thorough look at what Congress can do to help alleviate the persistent issues.
I urge the Committee to take up legislation to authorize VA work-study student positions in congressional offices.