If we allow the Highway Trust Fund to expire, the authorization to expire, and now we see a 34 to 36 percent cut, disaster, that is what would happen.
I hope that we won't be the only ones listening to ourselves.
We must get that same sense of bipartisanship in the Finance Committee, because these are tough times.
At the end of the day, we have to determine, as Americans, and we representing the American people, if investing an additional $6 billion a ...
If you can't move people and you can't move goods, you are just not going to grow.
But where we can come together, we do. And this is one area we believe it is absolutely necessary for our States and the United States to be...
we can't allow those ideas, whether it is an infrastructure bank or anything else, to replace the basic funding mechanism.
We really do believe this is a basic function of the national government, to address our infrastructure needs.
We can't keep building bridges in Baghdad and Kandahar and not Baltimore and Kansas City.
I so appreciate your asking that question.
So we now have to keep up the momentum.