The failure to invest in rebuilding our infrastructure for the 21st Century will result in lower rates of economic growth and thus lower tax revenues.
I believe there is an argument to be made that people who use the roads should pay for them.
I am hoping to work with Senator Inhofe so that we can make this really a major piece of our new transportation bill.
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 roads and bridges a...
I think their presence here today, and the eloquence of their testimony they gave us, and their commitment to stand by our side, is very str...
If we do not reauthorize, then everything will stop for those projects.
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 like better.
We cannot afford to send a signal to the Governors... that this would be a disaster.
I like, I would like an appropriate increase in the Federal Fuel Tax, recognizing that you are collecting half of what you used to.
the country trumps politics, that is where we have to go.
I can think of no better person to fill this critical post at a time when our Nation continues to face threats to our national security.