know we have a responsibility to make sure there is enough funding for the infrastructure, the safetyinfrastructure, the safety part of it, and i just want america to know what you can still companies the system. we are going to fix it. >> you can cows with a couple in from colorado. theythey got to talking about the metro and had a great experience. i think it is more common than we think. >> thank you for being here and talking about the system. >> thank you, and i recognize mr. webster for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. i read the metro every day for five and a half years from pentagon city to the font to capital south. and you know, i think there are two things here. talking about more money, hiring, firing, all of that, but all i know is that every day that i ride there is no escalator broken. so i started watching three escalators. there are bunch of them. this is three. and i would say that over the past few years that these three that i have watched have been rebuilt four times. i'm talking about all new everything. all the treads, and it just seems to me like there would be a mor

know we have a responsibility to make sure there is enough funding for the infrastructure, the safetyinfrastructure, the safety part of it, and i just want america to know what you can still companies the system. we are going to fix it. >> you can cows with a couple in from colorado. theythey got to talking about the metro and had a great experience. i think it is more common than we think. >> thank you for being here and talking about the system. >> thank you, and i recognize mr. webster for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. i read the metro every day for five and a half years from pentagon city to the font to capital south. and you know, i think there are two things here. talking about more money, hiring, firing, all of that, but all i know is that every day that i ridehere is no escalator broken. so i started watching three escalators. there are bunch of them. this is three. and i would say that over the past few years that these three that i have watched have been rebuilt four times. i'm talking about all new everything. all the treads, and it just seems to me like there would be a more