Olympia Snowe actually said...

Let me be clear. There is simply no excuse for Washington continuing to fund disaster accounts on an emergency and ad hoc basis rather than ...

This common sense approach would alleviate the political haggling and brinksmanship that has become all too common place in Washington.

Senator Snowe and I are committed to help make this process better, to improve upon it.

It is a huge safety issue for us, in the way we look at it and what's happened on the thousands of miles of roads that we have in our state.