John Thune actually said...

"This short-sightedness has left us with a broken and increasingly second-rate transportation system."

"The Administration has, in testimony in front of this Committee and others that I've been involved with in my time in the Senate, by your predecessor that that's something the Administration would not..."

"But it is a tool. It has been available to Congress, but it's very difficult to feature a bill passed by Congress if the Administration has taken a hard stand saying I'm not going to sign a bill or en..."

"We're unable to pass long-term funding transportation bills rooted in bold ideas."