Patty Murray: “I think it was 2 weeks ago that the Senate Transportation Subcommittee unanimously passed a Transportation bill. The…”

“I think it was 2 weeks ago that the Senate Transportation Subcommittee unanimously passed a Transportation bill. The Senator from Illinois serves on that committee and has been working with us. I appreciate his concern. He has a number of projects in Illinois that I know he wants to have put in place, but he doesn't want them hung up by a long and protracted debate over another issue in the Senate. I know the Senator from Illinois, who serves on our subcommittee, worked well with Members on the other side several weeks ago. It was a little more than a week ago that it passed out of the full committee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. We worked in a bipartisan way and unanimously voted out the provisions of this bill that fund the infrastructure needs of all 50 States, which include the safety provisions we are discussing this morning. We went to this bill last Friday. I believe it was around 2 in the afternoon.”