where you stand is where you sit. Where my constituents stand is that the Federal Government gets a free ride every day on Metro, because it doesn't pay operating subsidies.

We have witnessed a maddeningly decade-long descent into mediocrity, where it's imbued the entire workforce.

No one is more disheartened than I with the current unacceptable state of affairs.

we ought to implement your recommendations.

I've spent 21 years of my life working on Metro-related issues, first as a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, then as chairman, and now as a Member of this body.

it's gotten to that point that if we're going to reassure public confidence we have to hold people accountable at every layer of the organization.

if we actually could bring it down theoretically to zero, would be an enormous dent on the debt over 10 years.

We cannot allow the deterioration of our Metro system to become the soft underbelly of any target in the future.

Metro was facing multiple crises, a crisis in leadership, a crisis in safety, a crisis in commuter and stakeholder confidence, and a crisis in funding.

We need the FRA and its resources and capabilities because the FTA doesn't have it right now.

every dollar we invest in the GAO has what return on it?

It's about the security and welfare of our country.

Federal law cannot dictate who is on the board of Metro.

I think Congress has to provide resources to beef up that effort and to help restore American confidence.

Deportation is not, for them, some sort of penultimate punishment or deterrence, for that matter.

So we have doubled them.

We are worried about people, bad actors, who are vicious gang members, often from Central America.

We could handle a terrorist and did.

But actually there is another record to be told.

Well, good god, Ms. McWilliams, imagine if we actually elected one a President.

We know that the World Health Organization shows for $1 invested in treatment, that saves $12 for society.

Did you appoint an emergency manager, pursuant to that law?

We have to be the last line of defense.

This is a failure of a philosophy of governance you advocated.

Governor Snyder's administration had primary responsibility for enforcement under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not the EPA.