I share your concern and have recently, in partnership with Senator Schatz, introduced the Sequestration Relief Act of 2015.

And to those Members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.

The notion that I could just suspend deportations through Executive orders, that is just not the case.

We had too much surplus. Are you guys old enough to remember that?

We need to keep up our end of the bargain and pass a fully funded, long-term bill.

I think one of my jobs is to kind of explain the Constitutional requirements that we are talking about when we talk about a system.

The two elements that are the most basic responsibilities of the Federal Government are national defense and the development of a national transportation infrastructure.

First of all, I would like to have us not really talk about a gas tax increase. It is a user fee.

One of the few things that really does work in government is this system.

Unfortunately, what used to be the best transportation system in the world is now deteriorating.

What you are witnessing here is unusual in Washington, because you have a proud, outspoken liberal and a proud, outspoken conservative in total agreement on what we should be doing.

InterState commerce doesn't stop at State boundaries. No State is an island.

The conservative position is to go ahead and do an authorization bill.

We kind of need to get an outside the Beltway perspective.

Not passing a bill will hurt our already suffering economy.

I have been very frustrated over how we pay for a multi-year reauthorization.

I have to say this in a complimentary way about Senator Boxer, because there are some things that we did in our reforms.

my top priority this year is to pass a fiscally responsible, long-term highway bill.