judge robert eckels, of the high-speed rail and transportation corp. and a director at the government accountability office, and thomas skancke, commissioner of the transportation policy and revenue steady commission, president and ceo of the skancke company. we thank you all for being here. gov. rendell, if you would, please take 5 minutes. >> en we will fire that personally. and >> 6 months. >> take advantage of relationships, i know. we are glad to have you. you have done a great job at amtrak. we are proud of you. thank you for the reminder. we will stop you -- >> mr. chairman and ranking member, this is an opportunity for the country and i will compare it to the opportunity we had when we build a federal highway system. we need to do it right. i come here wearing 3 hats, as governor of pennsylvania, chairman of the national governors' association, co-chairman of building america's future, an organization dedicated to improving and investing in america's infrastructure, starting with gov. schwarzenegger and mayor bloomberg, bipartisan organization,

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and the honorable judge robert eckels, chairman of the texas high-speed rail and transportation company -- corporation. susan fleming director of infrastructure issues hipaa gao, and tom skancke, commissioner of the national surface transportation policy and revenue steady commission, president and ceo the tom skancke company. and we thank you all for being here and it governor rendell if you would please take five minutes to summarize, i try to meet the target of weekend. >> mr. chairman, you forgot mr. joseph boardman. >> my god, i look good show. and fire that person. [laughter] that is what happens taking care of relationships. we are glad to have you, joe, you have done a great job at amtrak. i'm sorry and we thank you, governor for the reminder. we will start to offset the five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman and ranking member and all the members, it's a pleasure to be here. i think this is a momentous opportunity for the country and i will analogized to the opportunity we had when we built the federal highway system but we need to do it right. i am here today wearing three ha