Orrin Hatch actually said...

Personally, I would like to preserve the user-pays system and prevent our Federal infrastructure programs from becoming another tax extender...

I share your viewpoint with regard to Jim Oberstar. He was a fine, fine man and a great member of Congress.

Now, would it not be the largest Federal motor fuels tax increase in modern times if we did that?

It looks to me like we have a permanent structural deficit problem in the Highway Trust Fund.