Richard Blumenthal actually said...

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

"the funding for that system expires at the end of September, and there's a need to reauthorize the Nation's surface transportation law."

"If they're on the books and they're not enforced, they're dead letter."

"Well, I am not here to debate you. My point was not that it would have, not that there was any certainty that it would have prevented Spuyten Duyvil, but that it could have."