I would agree, Chair Landrieu.
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.
It's a matter of commerce; it's a matter of jobs; it's a matter of industry.
I hate to be on the other side of a safety issue with you, because we have worked so closely on so many other issues.
I've been fighting this issue for a long time in this committee.
We believe that these 100,000-pound trucks, they don't have any business on the local roads.
Truck weights are a critical issue for my state, and presumably other states in this country.
Senator Snowe believes, that Senator Landrieu believes, that Meredith believes are important