Ed Rendell: “We don't need an infrastructure bank to decide whether Kansas is going to build an addition to Route 64.”

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 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.

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