Mary Landrieu: “This subcommittee rallied in a bipartisan way because that program was zeroed out.”

Thank you for continuing your focus on this, because the work is not done, and there are billions and billions of dollars of projects that could be built.

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

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.

I haven't heard that because for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi.