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Numerous authoritative reports have come to the conclusion that, for the foreseeable future, the Federal motor fuels tax is the best method for funding transportation infrastructure investment.

It is time to get serious and increase the gas tax.

There is no better time to invest in our infrastructure.

Over the long run, by mobilizing capital and increasing investment, FIRPTA reform will have a positive impact on the economy, job growth, and tax revenue.

It is not a serious proposal to pay for a long-term highway bill.

We must reject the Band-Aid and duct tape approach and go big and bold.

Right now, when it comes to highways, we find ourselves caught in a familiar dilemma, between raising taxes or cutting back on the highway program.

We can fund a 6-year bill at the level that a 21st-century infrastructure system demands without raising taxes on small business owners and working families.

I want to make it clear at the outset that my goal as chairman of this committee to find a way to fund a long-term infrastructure bill.

It should not take 7 years to do a NEPA review before you build any project.

We cannot do it under just the State funds or a short-term patch. You need to have a multi-year commitment as a Federal partner in order to be able to move forward in those programs.

I would hope that we could take this moment of opportunities--we have 43 days, and, Mr. Chairman, we are willing to work night and day with you on a bipartisan basis to step up and decide we are really going to invest in the future.

Put it on the table. See how much revenue you can get from it.

I support electric vehicles or natural gas vehicles.

If we cannot get a 6-year reauthorization, we are putting our communities at risk.

We cannot keep doing that.

This money is invested in America.

Devolution would destroy that kind of opportunity.