Roy Blunt actually said...

"I think the Mississippi River is a tremendous asset."

"I think the consensus here--and it has been very powerfully stated--is that investment is key, and we need to find a way to do it on a bipartisan basis."

"We absolutely need more certainty, from the funding perspective."

"And that's why I think we're at such a crisis point on what we're doing now as it relates to where we'll be a decade from now and a decade after that."