Chuck Grassley: “I want to state why that criticism is unfounded, and I want to say to my colleagues that what we are doing in this…”

“I want to state why that criticism is unfounded, and I want to say to my colleagues that what we are doing in this legislation is following precedent and making sure that money that ought to be in the trust fund is in fact in the trust fund, and that any sort of exemption we have is to make all those exemptions and/or subsidies perfectly consistent. I have found the unfounded criticism of the legislation that has come out of my committee falling into two categories: First, the general fund money is going into the trust fund. In other words, nonroad-related money is going into the road fund and the highway fund, the trust fund, the transportation fund, whatever you might want to call it.”