Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"If you had a responsible program, you would get 5 times as much done rather than waiting around for it to fail."

"So it is a really serious issue for Rhode Island and I think other coastal States to address the problem of the new pressures on our coasts of storms and seas."

"I hope very much that, as we look at WIFIAs and TIFIAs, we can at least be thinking about the prospect of a coastal IFIA."

"I do think that there is a role for TIFIA and its water cousin, WIFIA, in such a bill."