John Thune actually said...

"I've said many times that maintaining and improving our Nation's infrastructure is absolutely vital to our country's economic prosperity."

"Well, I think the legislation also has the provisional certification that you talked about, as well. It has some flexibility, but it also has the deadline attached to it."

"Many of us, my colleagues on the Committee here and others, have introduced legislation that would provide this blanket extension that I referred to, which does have a hard, firm deadline."

"Please do something about this. There has to be a better way."