I commend you, Mr. Chairman for once again holding a special hearing to focus on our highway safety challenges.

These statistics bear show that the Department of Transportation has missed its stated performance goal for highway safety.

Unfortunately the news since our last hearing on this topic has not been good.

I just hope you pay attention to the West because we are hurting.

the President is pushing for tax cuts that overwhelmingly favor our wealthiest citizens.

I think it is the Europeans who have declared a trade war on this country, and I think we need to push back.

I am very disconcerted by the President's budget.

When we wrote the No Child Left Behind, the teacher quality money was under the Teacher Quality State Grants.

Do you not agree that fulfilling that kind of mandate will require significant investments in training and recruiting and retaining and testing teachers?

But you are not going to give us a formal request of any kind so that we know how the President wants to set these priorities?

I hope that you look at the language of the minority report.