Jaime Herrera Beutler

We don't want to have to pay off their debts.

So can I challenge you on that, Mr. Secretary?

So the New Starts, so there was special legislation that allowed the New Starts grant to provide more than the 50 percent match?

These people just in November voted down the local matching tax.

This is an incredibly important issue for my biggest county.

If the cost estimates of an operations and maintenance are incorrect, heaven forbid, and the real costs are higher to the local communities, they are the ones on the hook for the excess, right?

New Starts program is designed only to pay for a portion of the initial cost of building a transit project.

That is a pretty big deal.

That would be great. That is what we would like to follow up on.

So I do not think there are a lot of them.

That would be great. I will get you all the specific information.

I would very much like to.

So we manage some of these standards in Washington State, so it seems to me that they should be manageable and there should be some cooperation with the federal standards.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

And I think that is where some of us in the West, and some of our producers and our small forest landowners are feeling like there is a group here that maybe needs to come out and tour some of the forests that we have and understand the…

I actually wanted to follow up a little bit on the LEED certification.

I have had a lot of small businesses say, 'We cannot get anything out of it.'

We cannot do things as we have always done or we are going to get the same result.

I certainly do not believe that this President created the debt at all.

I guess that is one of those things that people hate about politics in Washington, D.C. It does not pass the straight face test.

The point is, is it fair and appropriate to come up here and to totally decry sequester when you proposed it?

What is fair is more Americans should get to keep more of their money.

But when you talk about fair, I think about my own folks.

But the truth is, this budget represents zero, a net zero reduction in government spending.

That is something that we would want out there as consumers, as individuals, right? You want to know, and you are grateful when the IRS will take a step like that.