Ed Rendell: “It is that the Federal Government is actually an anchor around our necks, and that even when there are no Federal…”

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.

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

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.