Lamar Alexander actually said...

Well, Mr. James, that might be true, but if you are not spending what you are already collecting, why would you collect more?

So if you are not proposing to spend what we are already collecting, why would you propose raising taxes further on waterway users?

And increasing the fee, increased the amount of money deposited into the Trust Fund by about $20 million a year.

A logical time to be able to get that amount of construction in the ground.