The funding provided in H.R. 1 was a good start, but certainly not enough.
We cannot walk away from it because we would be walking away from the future.
I hope the Administration is open to working with us on every possible idea.
This is something we can get done, but nothing should be off the table, even if at first blush, you know, we reject it.
We continue to hear loud and clear that the need for investment is great.
We can't do our share with an ever-dwindling Highway Trust Fund.
I am averse to raising the gas tax. But I have not signed a pledge, and that means I am willing to see what we have to d...
President Obama at first in the budget took this whole trust fund idea and basically said it is not working.
I am of a mind that pay as you go is really a good thing.
I think it is important that so many people came here... We want to get this job done.
I think it has been very important. So thank you so much.
We have to in the United States get our act together and address infrastructure in a big way.
The current legislation, SAFETEA-LU, will expire on September 30, 2009.
We must have continued investment to maintain these jobs and make additional needed improvements to our infrastructure.
It is important to note that the $27.5 billion for highways in stimulus is no way a substitute for the hundreds of billi...
This level of funding for highways in an economic stimulus bill is unacceptable, as it largely ignores the immediate job...
I want to say, we will as well. So I think this is, we are ready to go. We are very close to being ready to go.
Well said.
