What encompasses critical infrastructure?

You seem to be wanting it both ways.

I would suggest that perhaps instead of looking for perfect, if you are willing to compromise with us, we will all come to some resolution.

If the Administrator is willing to work with Congress and Congress is willing to come to a solution that actually works to address coal ash, we would be the first people to endorse such a solution.

I think the real sticking point, if I am correct, is over primacy.

We now have less than 1,000 steelworkers. Now, think about that.

We really you don't have--other than maybe giving some help, there is no way to help pick up that cost for them?

I agree with you on personal responsibility.

I think it was a very----

But the EPA says the indoor air quality might be as bad as 100 times worse in indoor.

How do you differentiate someone getting asthma or some kind of airborne disease from being outdoors from when they are indoors?

I want to get this resolved, and I like the history and the ideology that people are putting out there about that they would rather have nothing than have something that moves in the right direction.

So if this legislation doesn't go through--and I want to paint probably the worst picture would be--I believe isn't there litigation now?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the time that you have given me on this.

If we continue with this, with being stonewalled, I guess, that argument of making perfect the enemy of good and we do not pass a bill, can you help paint the picture of what happens?

To ensure full protection for the citizens of those states where there is considerable disproportionate impact on communities of color and low income communities, the bill must contain a national protective standard and minimum federal…

I find it almost a demeaning, demoralizing comment when people make that statement that these are just temporary jobs.

I think that is a good point, because you see as government comes in and forces more regulation in some cases, I think it stifles innovation.

We have needed more money, not less money for our infrastructure.

We know that bridges are rated at a C and our roads are rated at a D in their condition.

Illinois is a manufacturing hub, obviously, a center of the country in both transportation and people and everything else, but we have created, in our State, some terrible economic policies.

We have to compete like that around the world. Gone are the days where we can put up the walls and say, well, we are just going to do business here at home now.

I would like to hear Ford's perspective on this issue.

If we are taking money away from infrastructure and we are putting our families, our children, and our spouses at risk...

Don't you see we are exacerbating the problem by pushing 55 miles per gallon in a short timeframe?