Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I hope that we can get assurances from you that in your administration of highway grants, you will protect the integrity of the process and ...

I think in the long run, if you find this becomes politicized, you will find support for the program dramatically decreasing.

We have seen a rather unseemly spectacle recently which was a member of the Cabinet telling a Senator that they would be punished in grants ...

We shouldn't have to wait around for that.