Earl Blumenauer actually said...

obviously people traveling on the highway do get a benefit from people who decide to use other forms of transportation through lower congest...

I hope that it is the first of several hearings that we have on the Budget Committee dealing with infrastructure finance.

I hope that we can go to conference on the budget so we can begin to iron out some of those important differences.

We have not been investing enough. The Highway Trust Fund is not going bankrupt, but it moves into a negative balance.