Orrin Hatch actually said...

"Regardless of its source, financing is only a mechanism for making future tax or user fee revenues available to pay for projects sooner."

"As long as our federal highway program is based upon reimbursements to states made on a formula basis, there is no workable substitute for federal funding."

"Neither party should point fingers and try to lay blame when it comes to the now-common practice of passing short-term highway extensions."

"Let us not take things off the table before we start this discussion."