Bill Clinton: “The Labor Department, we were in contact with them, and I know they've already committed another $3 million just to pay…”

“The Labor Department, we were in contact with them, and I know they've already committed another $3 million just to pay people to do the emergency and clean-up work. But I think the fact that we're ahead of schedule on that is important. And I know you're going to follow up on the question of how quickly then highway construction can be done, because, obviously, if you could do longer work weeks or 24- hour days in some of those places, it would make a big difference. [Secretary Pena explained that construction workers were working long hours to repair the highway system.]”