Mary Landrieu: “You stated that it is not necessarily DARPA's job to produce completed designs.”

Senator Landrieu recently announced that on June 30, we are going to be holding a field hearing on trade issues down in New Orleans.

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.

We should think about that, a special category.

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.