Willie Sutton was once asked, 'Why do you rob banks?' And he said, 'Well, that is where the money is.'

I also feel like the people who put this hearing together think that all the shipping in the world goes out of the south or the east.

I am deeply grateful for the leadership of Chairman Tiberi and Congressman McDermott, the lead sponsors of ASRA.

And if my state got 20 percent of the money I would probably be advocating for more.

We all agree that it needs to be fixed. It is a question of how to fix it.

this is not a partisan issue, this is an economic issue that has got to be dealt with.

We get $.01 back on every $1 we put into this thing.

The HMT shouldn't just sit there while our nation's ports have problems.

My concern is that should the labor text go beyond the May 10th Agreement it would create, first, unnecessary controversy.

There is a little bit of paranoia on this side that if we send a bill to the Senate, sometimes it comes back differently than we had anticipated.

I think it means that more people are taking advantage of this.