Mr. Chair, as I was so aptly reminded, we don't want to see engineers sitting around telling us how to spend our money, but we want to make sure we look for things we can actually provide to the public infrastructure: dynamic online infrastructure information systems; a suite of tools or templates that can be used to address issues such as the needs of large versus small communities, life-cycle costing, return on investment calculations--something that someone who doesn't have direct access to a consultant or that type of a management system can access--a clearing house of infrastructure case studies, things that could be searchable and publicized; metrics, to ensure that the environmental effects of the infrastructure are taken into account.
On October 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.