Eric Crawford: “There are real life men and women with dirt under their fingernails.”

Thank you for holding today's hearing to bring more attention to what must be done to address the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.

How do we ensure that we have the resources to build and maintain a surface transportation system that will meet the needs of our Nation and allow us to remain competitive in the 21st century?

Congress should reject exorbitantly costly, unrealistic mandates to replace fossil fuels and to force foreclosing nearly every other fuel source except for unreliable 'green' ones--all driven by government diktat rather than free-market…

The President campaigned on a pie in the sky goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.