Thomas E. Petri: “I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

Our infrastructure, our transportation system has been the foundation of our economic greatness in this country, and we need to step up and demand that we find a way to continue to finance it.

That is pathetic, and we have to do something about it.

I applaud the administration and I applaud the other members of this committee who say, let's take a look at some other sources of revenue, including general revenues.

These scores are having real-world impacts on the carriers' ability to find business, and erroneous violations could put a carrier out of business.