Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I would like your thoughts on the ways in which Government's education oversight should be changed to better allow for the type of innovation that is needed."

"That is a very significant tragedy in this context because people do not get a second youth to go back and redo an education that was a phony one."

"But it is kind of like driving a Model T in some respects."

"I share his worry that if we go back to just a gas tax, we are putting ourselves on a glide slope that ends back in a bad place all over again."