Since President Trump has been in office, we have seen a 3 percent growth in the economy.

According to the World Economic Forum, the U.S. ranks 12th in overall infrastructure quality.

We need to spend close to $2 trillion in the next 10 years to improve all of our infrastructure.

The more delays we see, the further behind we will become.

Thank you, Mr. Policinski. Also thank you for being specific, because you specified five things.

It is going to cost money, and we have to figure it out, and we can't think small; we have to think big.

For the first time you recognized freight as being a primary driver of transportation spending.

I can remember during the last year, year before last, when we would have our meetings, when I would report on what this Committee is doing.

Mr. President, we commend Senator Hatch for his efforts on this most important bill. We would like to ask for confirmation on a question that will be of considerable importance to millions of seniors housing residents, including those…

The joy of the Senate is the minority can always express their displeasure in a multitude of different ways.

I literally took the exact same language as 2013, removed the sunset, and said this becomes permanent.

The elimination, obviously, of the 60-vote protection, except for the Supreme Court, was done by a Congress controlled by Democrats.

With some rare exceptions, obviously, with some very heated Cabinet officials, this rule that I am proposing would not change those a bit.

I would not only in the sense that that seems to be a genie out of the bottle at this point.

We have to be able to solve it.

They are going to put some people up that are not going to perform well, that Senators from both parties should step back and say our advice and consent is no.

I would think that would be appropriate only in the sense that if it is not being used, go ahead and bring it to the vote and get it resolved.

I think there is no easy moment to do it.