Ed Rendell: “The public never heard about those. And the whole earmark process poisoned the well for transportation funding.”

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

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

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.