[laughter] neyer villaraigosa. >> thank you, chairman neal. a great pronunciation by the way.a ranking member tiberi and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to address you today. it's indeed an honor to be here with america's preeminent advocates for and infrastructure investment here in the united states and your leadership supports an interest in transportation infrastructure are crucialto the future of the country. and your focus on leveraging federal investment comes at the right time. i don't have to tell you american cities continue to grow and as we grow we are struggling with congestion and burdens our economy and increases the cost of goods movement and affects the mental and physical house to veto health of the community. the same time we are facing staggering unemployment. in los angeles, the unemployed in every case at 14%. in the onstruction trades that number is about 35%. we believe it is a way to address both issues head-on through an innovative federal and local partnership. now i don't have to tell any f you as you have visited my city

[laughter] neyer villaraigosa. >> thank you, chairman neal. a great pronunciation by the way. a ranking member tiberi and members of e subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to address you today. it's indeed an honor to be here with america's preeminent advocates for and infrastructure investment here in the united states and your leadership supports an interest in transportation infrastructure are crucial to the future of the country. and yourocus on leveraging federal invement comes at the right time. i don't have to tell you american cities continue to grow and as we grow we are struggling with congestion and burdens our economy and increases the cost of goods movement and affects the mental and physical house to veto health of the community. the same time we are facing staggering unemployment. in los angeles, the unemployed in every case at 14%. in the construction trades that number is about 35%. we believe it is a way to address oth issues head-on through an innovative federal and local partnership. now i don't have to tell any of you as you have visited my city you

and finally we will hear from the mayor antonio villaraigosa, the mayor of the city of los angeles. mr. rendell and the mayor of los angeles i will refer to them as i mr. mayer. we share the common alumni as the season. we look for to the testimony today and thank you for your participation.ion. without objection any otherout n members wishing to answer statements as a part of the record may dopart so. writte all written statement, written and proposed by the witnessesppy will be inserted into the record as well.l. i recognize, riss wollman delauro for her opening o forments. >> thank you very muchef mr. chairman and ranking member. tiberi. members of the subcommittee, and number from including mr. blumenauer, who has been thv strong proponent ofrong prpon infrastructure over the yearsase thisr is a timely hitting and ii appreciate the opportunity to testify about my proposal. it's a proposal along with representatives keith ellison,ma steve israel and elanthony wieny and yes, it is about to create a national infrastructure bank, and i will also say i am honorem to be on this panel

[laughter] neyer villaraigosa. >> thank you, chairman neal. a great pronunciation by the way. a ranking member tiberi and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to address you today. it's indeed an honor to be here with america's preeminent advocates for and infrastructure investment here in the united states and your leadership supports an interest in transportation infrastructure are crucial to the future of the country. and your focus on leveraging federal investment comes at the right time. i don't have to tell you american cities continue to grow and as we grow we are struggling with congestion and burdens our economy and increases the cost of goods movement and affects the mental and physical house to veto health of the community. the same time we are facing staggering unemployment. in los angeles, the unemployed in every case at 14%. in the construction trades that number is about 35%. we believe it is a way to address both issues head-on through an innovative federal and local partnership. now i don't have to tell any of you as you have visited my c

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mayor villaraigosa, good to see you. i'm interested to know if you're able to get expanded financing and the ability to leverage local dollars, your transportation numbers were impressive. what you're doing is outstanding work and i wouldn't have expected anything less from you. but how about transportation versus water infrastructure? are you thinking about using some of that new leverage funds to expand your water infrastructure? you know well the serious problems that we have with the very scarce resource and some of the problems that it is causing both economically, from a policy perspective and a political perspective up and down our state. so i'd like to know what your thoughts are on that? >> well, first of all, thank you. with respect to, i mean i think, we're currently talking about transportation but infrastructure obviously is a much larger issue than just transportation, and water infrastructure is critical, i supported the governor's water bond package. i did. i did not because it was perfect because i didn'

mac to a mayor in california to the head of the state senate, we're these horrible people, mayor villaraigosatelling people not to come to arizona. cancel the all-star contract. we can cancel them, too. we have a contract that we're letting them use our water. california spends tens of millions of year -- i would hate to know how much we spend. and when you look at all these people that are asking -- rallies -- they forget to tell you that they're being bussed in. it's funny, yesterday in arizona, like they bussed them in a few days ago, and yesterday in arizona there were only about a thousand people at the capitol. wouldn't you think this is a state that should have 50,000? they were bussed in. >> host: let's leave it there and get an answer. >> guest: there's no doubt, the demonstration on wall street against goldman sachs -- and i count myself as aity yack of goldman goldman sachs -- they're an organized program, they're bussed in. the rallies held yesterday or the demonstrations for path to citizenship or am is in -- amnesty or against the arizona law were much smaller nationwide than pr