Adding 17,000 pounds to our trucks aren't going to make our bridges any safer in Pennsylvania or in Ohio or in the hills of Tennessee or on a winter road in Minnesota.

I was very proud of that work. And I was also pleased to see that the language that I proposed... made it into the final bill.

The interstate system was designed to move goods across the country efficiently. Having a patchwork, jigsaw interstate system where one State allows heavier trucks, one State does not would be typical of Washington's involvement to take…

We hope that this committee, in drawing its criteria, will, frankly, be more flexible and more open than maybe the Senate was in drawing its.

I urge the subcommittee to oppose unnecessary restrictions on the location of the new FBI headquarters.

I would encourage the subcommittee not to limit its search to sites no further than 2.5 miles from the Capital Beltway as the Senate prospectus requires.

It won't be long before the widening of the Panama Canal is completed.

Yes. I agree with you, that we should wait until this study is completed so we have the information we need to make a good decision about the safety and end cost.

I disagree--I am listening here today and I guess my first disagreement is how we even define our borders.

I come from a much different perspective, being a mayor--a former mayor--of a city that is 2,000 miles away from the nearest Southern Border.

We need to make sure that we are doing first things first--that we are securing our borders.