before the Senator from Illinois leaves the floor, I just want to thank him for his amazing leadership on this whole issue of immigration. The Senator and I share a similar background because my mother also was an immigrant, and the…

Because we all don't want our middle class to be paying more. This makes sense.

If we fail to act, and Senator Hatch and Senator Wyden together don't figure out a funding mechanism...

I am working with the construction industry to get us all together in April, Republicans, Democrats, business, labor, everybody in between.

We are in a dire circumstance.

we do agree on the absolute importance of having a Class A transportation system.

If you think the Federal Government is done with transportation, I suppose you could devolve the program.

We need a bill and we need it now.

It is dangerous for our economy. It is dangerous for our citizens. It is costly, it is bad.

I think we need to take the lead and get this going.

I want to make it clear that Senator Vitter and I totally agree that there ought to be an offset if we go with a higher gas tax for middle class and working poor.

And that means lost jobs and businesses really hurting.