How much more flexible can you get? Give me another idea?
Or is that just a code word for we don't want to address revenues and increase investment in the Trust Fund until after ...
I think that the Administration is being unnecessarily averse in underestimating the capability of the American public.
Is that acceptable to this Administration, 18 months with no change in policy? Is that acceptable?
I applaud you and your Committee here for trying to put America back to work.
I think that is the principal thing that has led the Administration to propose an 18-month extension.
My State enacted a gas tax increase. We have the highest unemployment in America.
I agree with Chairman Oberstar. I read all the way through your testimony and I said this is really good.
this delay here and this business as usual is really unfortunate. I am very disappointed in the Administration's positio...
But if we do an 18-month with no policy changes, it is going to kind of grind to a halt, right?
America urgently needs a robust transportation bill along the lines of what you passed on May 24th.
I have proposed the idea of just taxing oil speculators.
I think it would be a better investment than the 20 bucks a week that only those who still have jobs are getting.
I would just say to the Administration: I don't get it.
I fully support you in your urgency to pass something, and we should do so, assert our authority as the United States Co...
I have proposed taxing oil by the barrel, with the idea that some of that tax could flow upstream to the OPEC cartel.
I proposed the idea of bonding by putting a construction cost inflation on the gas tax and delaying that until such a ti...
I strongly support, vehemently support passing the surface transportation bill.