Thank you, Senator Thune.

Well, we ought to get the rest of you guys in this discussion, right?

if such climate legislation is to pass, it should not result in a rural state, like South Dakota, being required to take impractical steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

But, if we just continue to raise the inherent cost of manufacturing in this society, all that's going to do is push this stuff more and more offshore, and provide fewer and fewer jobs in this country.

We, like AASHTO, support keeping the ratio between the highway and transit programs at 4-1.

We do believe that there needs to be reform.

We believe that the highway program is vitally important.

We're strong supporters of the Build America Bonds program, a $50-billion increase in transportation funding across the country.

It seems like a kind of a one-size-fits-all type of legislation that was put in, and it, quite frankly, isn't working on the actual crew fatigue.

We've got to get more of the heavy stuff to the railroads and the heaviest of stuff off the highways.

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

Obviously, everybody here, and all of you, want to make sure that we're taking whatever steps we can to make airline travel as safe as is humanly possible.