This is not going to be easy. But it is necessary.
And I honestly believe, in this effort, and I cannot thank the staff enough, Republican staff, Democratic staff, this ha...
We have to mark up this bill before we leave this summer. We have to get this bill to the Senate floor and pass it.
This is a question of priorities.
If we don't act, this is the fact, we will see a cut of one-third, actually 36 percent.
We really do believe this is a basic function of the national government, to address our infrastructure needs.
If you can't move people and you can't move goods, you are just not going to grow.
I want to thank so much my friend and colleague, Senator Jim Inhofe, for ensuring that our differences on many other iss...
We don't do that when we know that we can work together.
I thank you for it.
I just want to say to each and every one of you, this job that I have, that Senator Inhofe has, the rest of us, we would...
At the end of the day, we have to determine, as Americans, and we representing the American people, if investing an addi...
the basic Highway Trust Fund, that is how we fund, that is the bread and butter.
We have made a lot of reforms in this bill. It is remarkable how many reforms we have made.
I hope that we won't be the only ones listening to ourselves.
But where we can come together, we do. And this is one area we believe it is absolutely necessary for our States and the...
If we allow the Highway Trust Fund to expire, the authorization to expire, and now we see a 34 to 36 percent cut, disast...
We must get that same sense of bipartisanship in the Finance Committee, because these are tough times.
