One of the things that has bothered me over the last year or two, or, actually, over the last number of years, when people have even questioned whether the Federal Government has a role in building highways or in transportation systems, what everybody forgets is that, for me, my parents' generation built these systems and paid for these systems and my children are going to have to pay to fix these systems and to invest in new systems.
Donnelly emphasizes the historical role of federal government in transportation infrastructure.
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