The lesson of the RGGI experience is plain and reassuring: cap-and-trade works.

As we discuss the transportation infrastructure crisis in America, we cannot forget rural America.

we are seeing transportation technology that we don't have in the United States of America.

we need an additional $1 billion over the next 5 years just to keep our roads and bridges in the same poor shape they are in right now.

Thank you for your strong advocacy for the stimulus package which I think is one of the most important pieces of legislation, for a dozen different reasons, that this Country has passed in a very, very long time.

the American Society of Civil Engineers has estimated that we should be investing over $2 trillion in infrastructure.

if you allow your infrastructure to deteriorate, year after year after year you don't put funding in it, you know what? It is going to get worse; probably will not get better.

it costs more money to rebuild a crumbling infrastructure than it does to simply maintain it.

I get in my office--and I am sure Senator Whitehouse and every Senator gets--irate calls from taxpayers of this country...

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for allowing me to drop into this Committee of which I am not a member, and thank you also very much, Mr. Chairman, for cosponsorship of legislation that I have introduced which would put a cap on credit…

the incredible greed, recklessness, illegal behavior on the part of Wall Street has enraged the American people.

I think obviously the American people have had it up to here with financial institutions in general.