I believe there is an argument to be made that people who use the roads should pay for them.
It is time we invest in America.
The failure to invest in rebuilding our infrastructure for the 21st Century will result in lower rates of economic growt...
Our shared support for infrastructure investment follows many years of bipartisan support for exactly the kind of invest...
When we are reduced to competing on who can make the biggest budget cuts instead of deciding on how to compete in the wo...
Strong Federal investment in our transportation system has never been more important to support the economy and to creat...
I like, I would like an appropriate increase in the Federal Fuel Tax, recognizing that you are collecting half of what y...
I would just hope that as we reauthorize Surface Transportation Programs that we are mindful that we need to increase, n...
I think their presence here today, and the eloquence of their testimony they gave us, and their commitment to stand by o...
We cannot afford to send a signal to the Governors... that this would be a disaster.
So, Tom Carper's idea of raising the gas tax one penny that he did with Voinovich a month for 24 months, that idea you l...
If we do not reauthorize, then everything will stop for those projects.
We have an imperative.
the reason they are willing to go for a fuel tax, and the only way they will do it, is if you are going to put it in the...
the country trumps politics, that is where we have to go.
I am hoping to work with Senator Inhofe so that we can make this really a major piece of our new transportation bill.
I look forward to working with you and the members of this committee to draft and pass surface transportation legislatio...
We cannot solve our long-term Federal deficit if we fail to invest in the future.
