John Thune actually said...

Now, what makes us competitive is getting our product to market, but the manufacture of the imports is all going over overseas.

We can greatly improve the efficiency of delivering our projects.

this has always been a very emotional issue with, specifically, our friends in the highway area, and the truckers, to some degree.

I think one of the practical problems we'll run into with the push to more fuel-efficient vehicles... is an ever-shrinking revenue source.