Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions. — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993. — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. ... In a country where only… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions. — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them,… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993. — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world. — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image