Obviously, it is up to the Legislature and the executive branch to come up with a long-term solution. This represents a pretty good intermediate plan.

It's a testament to an immigrant who was welcomed by the state of New Jersey and by this country. I was provided the kind of opportunity that you only read about in fairly tales.

They sacrificed everything that they knew -- their friends, their jobs. They didn't come here for themselves, but they came here for my brother and me.

This oversight board is not just a board made up of people who will rubber-stamp the decisions of the Transportation Trust Fund Authority. This oversight board will have the statutory authority to not only oversee the TTFA finances but to make sure our debt ceiling and our capital program are in line with what we said it would be.

This is not a problem that the executive branch can fix on its own.

And unfortunately, this group probably has more digestion ahead of it.