Richard Durbin actually said...

We also need to strengthen investment in our Nation's infrastructure by repairing crumbling roads and bridges.

the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government maintains jurisdiction over the annual appropriations for the O...

It's completely within our capacity to do, and we have to make sure we justify that confidence that you see in markets every day now.

This proposed cut seems to me to be penny-wise and pound foolish.