I wish it would have been $200 billion or $150 billion, or something more north of where we ended up.

Hopefully, we can correct that in upcoming legislation.

I applaud that. Contrary to popular belief, my district still has needs for infrastructure and highway building.

I hope the new person that you bring into the FRA is somebody that comes from a background with some speed.

50 months, for any sum of money, this seems to me to be far too long.

This isn't chump change. It is $35 billion. It is half or even more than half, depending upon how you look at it, of what we put out there in stimulus.

I was very disappointed that the last Administration didn't embrace this program especially after the events of September.

Well, I thank the Chairwoman and also want to welcome everybody to today's hearing on the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Program.

Elections do matter. But in my lifetime, I have never seen an election change the speed or increase the speed of the bureaucracy working.

I think that as this is being discussed around the kitchen tables and water coolers around America...