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"If we want to make America strong, safe and fiscally sound, we should be investing in education, infrastructure, and research." "

If we're not going to appropriate money to the commuter railroads to help alleviate the burden of this unfunded mandate, the least we can do is give these railroads the additional time required for full implementation. My amendment ensures proper impl

HOPWA is an investment. Its not money down the drain. When we keep people in stable housing, their health improves, they adhere to their medications and they stay out of the emergency rooms it saves us all money.'

"Core Capacity was designed to fund projects that repair critical infrastructure and add capacity to existing transit lines. That means that projects that add infill stations, double or triple track a rail line, or expand platforms to allow for longer trains, can avail themselves of federal funding."

"What I saw when I walked there, during the rain and the days afterwards, was people who lost everything. I saw basements that were flooded to the first view feet of the first floor." '

"After twenty three NHL Playoff games, ten overtimes and sixty four goals, the Chicago Blackhawks have won their second Stanley Cup in the last four years!" '

"Manufacturing offers some of the best paying jobs in our country and a clear pathway into the middle-class." '