Thomas E. Petri: “I rise in tribute to JoAnn Ward, executive director of the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Convention and Visitors Bureau, who…”

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.

I have always felt that simple, universal, income-based repayment has the potential to accomplish the goals of the various protections we have created.

We have all these options for drilling on Federal property, ways that we can use our domestic resources to keep from sending money overseas and bring our fuel costs down.

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.