Richard Blumenthal actually said...

these relatively minuscule penalties... plainly, I think, provide an inadequate deterrent to violation-of-safety standards.

standards need to be sufficiently high, they need to be enforced rigorously, and that penalties have to provide a deterrent to violation of ...

the Highway Trust Fund will go broke in July, just next month.

We are here at a moment of tremendous promise and peril for our Nation's transportation system.