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Title: LaHood defends stimulus on N.H. visit: transportation secretary points to 'real numbers' as evidence of success.(TRANSPORTATION)
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Publication: New Hampshire Business Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 6, 2009
Publisher: Business Publications, Inc.
Volume: 31 Issue: 24 Page: 15(1)

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LC Number: KF26 .C69 2009a OCLC Number: (OCoLC)426135764 Excerpt: ...omy legislation. I hope that you view this as an opportunity to write a standard that will support our climate change and energy security goals by moving the domestic auto industry as quickly as practicable toward the goal of achieving at least 35 miles per gallon by 2020. The Chairman. And so be it. Senator Kerry. And I look forward to supporting your nomination Congressman. We'd reached our agreements over lunch yesterday and after the Inauguration, but I really look forward to your stewardship there. Thank you. The Chairman. Thank you. Thank you, Senator Kerry. And obviously I want to welcome everyone to the first session. Not everybody is here. But it's two. Nobody expected it would be that early. And I wanted, with the forbearance of the three distinguished people at the witness table, I want to just say a word about the Committee. I'm not Chairman. I'm still Chairman of the Intelligence committee, so you can pitch me right out of the room if you want. [Laughter.] The Chairman. But Danny actually isn't big enough to do that, you see. So, I'm OK. [Laughter.] The Chairman. This is a very exciting thing to me. I'm deeply proud to be Chairman of this Committee or to be able to get into that position. I've been on this Committee for 24 years, and have specialized in certain areas. I had no idea until I started to do preparation the unbelievable scope of what it is that we have to do, everything from putting ten extra runways at O'Hare Airport if Dick Durbin wants it. [Laughter.] The Chairman. I mean, there's just no end to our capacity of affecting climate change, transportation, telecommunications, the FCC. We've got control of sports. Unfortunately, it's only college sports, not professional sports, but---- [Laughter.] The Chairman. We'll take what we can get. And I'm very proud that Senator Inouye, who I think...

Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2009. LC Number: KF26 .C69 2009a OCLC Number: (OCoLC)426135764 Excerpt: ... 11 STATEMENT OF HON. MARIA CANTWELL, U.S. SENATOR FROM WASHINGTON ANTWELL Senator C. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don't have a very long opening statement. But I am concerned that I may not be here for the question-and-answer part. So I'll just outline my statement if I could, and hope that perhaps that I will be able to get back and ask you some questions. But obviously I want to congratulate you on your nomination and for your hard work in the Congress. You may know that Wash-ington State recently has been very hard hit by a lot of flooding. In fact Secretary, your predecessor, Secretary Peters traveled to Washington State to look at and assess the flood damage along I - 5 and also brought with her some $ 2 million in emergency relief funds which we very much appreciated. I want to say that we'll be looking forward to working with you on what may be as much as $ 125 million in damage to flood areas in our state. And that brings up an even larger question. Just - I'm trying to make this as short as possible, but the previous flood damage that we had a year ago - every day that I - 5 is closed it costs our economy $ 10 to $ 12 million. It's a freeway stretch that typically carries about 10,000 trucks a day, so that and our mountain passes being shut down is where you get the $ 125 million in those kinds of activities. So in addition to looking at that question there is a very good, specific point, and I look forward to hearing your comments about what you're going to do about funding of mega-projects. Mega-projects always get a lot of attention in assessing the issue. But trying to take our transportation funding mechanisms and breaking them down into a mechanism that will actually get those projects funded and not delayed for us in the State of Washington. We have three different mega-projects that are of importance to us: the Columbia River...