Addresses Quote by Anonymous

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional…

— Anonymous

No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.

— Bob Casey, Jr

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

— Corrine Brown

As the former Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, I understand that transportation infrastructure is vital to economic growth, particularly…

— Bill Hagerty

We must invest in our nation's transportation infrastructure.

— Dan Lipinski

We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment…

— Michael Nutter

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's…

— Jim Talent

Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.

— Cynthia Lummis

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs…

— Corrine Brown

“The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than…

— Dolores Hayden

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant…

— Michael Chertoff