Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I want to follow up on some of the questions that I heard Senator Booker ask about surface transportation."

"What can be changed in those procurement policies, which have so handicapped other branches of government as well in similarly urgent tasks?"

"I think we have an obligation to compel the relevant agencies, principally OPM and anybody else concerned, to do better and to do more and to do it more quickly so that you can succeed in this task."

"I think all of us would agree."