Ed Rendell

Doug Mastriano is now one of two people who could get the job you once held. This is a man who was at the Capitol on January 6. He continues to be an election denier pushing the big lie.

The Northeast Corridor by 2030 will increase our population by 40 percent, and there is not enough I-95 to support that.

The Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, who probably couldn't agree that today is Thursday, they agree that we need to raise the gas tax.

Raising taxes: less than $100. Cost of inaction: $818.

We strongly support an infrastructure bank. It is the best vehicle, we think, for getting capital, private capital, into play for projects of regional and national significance.

The cost of inaction --and the gentleman from the trucking industry talked about repairs and accidents to the trucks that come from bad roads and inadequate bridges.

We need to raise the gas tax. We need to adjust it for inflation on a yearly basis.

We need to revitalize America's infrastructure before it is too late.

We are going to lose a whole boatload of business to Canada because of that.

You insulate the infrastructure bank from political pressure, like the BRAC Commission, which by and large works pretty well.

But I go to too many hearings on the question of infrastructure and transportation, and nothing significant gets done. Nothing significant gets done.