Ed Rendell: “We are going to lose a whole boatload of business to Canada because of that.”

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 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.

This is not a mid-year election. This is the equivalent of a presidential election.

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