Mary Landrieu: “You may want to just consider opening up an avenue for some of these elected officials who are down there.”

We should think about that, a special category.

I generally support the goals of the enhancements to the FAST Act, and do believe, as Senator McCaskill said, that having--and both of you--a permanent director, a budget, a staff to give some strength to what you all are trying to do.

If this process is not fixed or focused or made better, it would really be not worth speaking about.

There are a lot of people here who are very upset and very angry and very frustrated.