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Spending, $5 billion of which will be spent this year between now and 2019. this is a crime against democracy. and we are a government where we know what's in the bills usually before we vote for it. bill: and others will make the argument you didn't have time to look at it. was that the reason why it was not discovered? >> no, because harry reid did not give the senators the final version of the bill until just a couple of hours before they voted on it. in the house, we were working on the house bill at the last minute, we got the senate language. that's what we ended up voting on. bill: what...

Revenue for nothing but roads and bridges and infrastructure. look, we waste, according to the american society of civil engineers, we waste $115 billion a year sitting in traffic. we could save $115 billion by modernizing our roads, making us more efficient, and we had a users fees dedicated to that. the users fee system got side tracked and now we're trying to get it back online. >> what about a gas tax? that's one thing that tom donahue has talked. would your rank and file members be willing to pay a higher gas tax to raise money for roads and bridges and tunnels? >> if it were dedicated to...

-- nice to see you. >> great to see you. >> it want easy to find your office. >> we only have certain elevators on the 5th floor. >> because you are a first year member. it is very nice. >> thank you. >> greta: some heat over health care. your position on voting for or against the repeal bill? >> 100% for the repeal. >> >> there's a myriad of reasons. first of all, the general public doesn't know the cbo scores are not accurate. the cbo can only score the information they have. it didn't talk about the 115 billion dollars in discretionary funds it costs to implement this health care. it didn't...

-- nice to see you. >> great to see you. >> it want easy to find your office. >> we only have certain elevators on the 5th floor. >> because you are a first year member. it is very nice. >> thank you. >> greta: some heat over health care. your position on voting for or against the repeal bill? >> 100% for the repeal. >> >> there's a myriad of reasons. first of all, the general public doesn't know the cbo scores are not accurate. the cbo can only score the information they have. it didn't talk about the 115 billion dollars in discretionary funds it costs to implement this health care. it didn't...

Barack obama is spending too much money. he's ratcheted up spending on a permanent basis and he's trying to fool everyone. raising taxes on the rich is not going to solve this problem. if we're going to do it through taxes alone, then we'll have to raise everyone's taxes so it is time to be honest in this tax debate. >> i want to ask about this though, peter, before i get to chuck. it says it would cost $115 billion to extend those tack cuts even for one year. people like alan greenspan, former fed chairman, say that unless you offset the costs elsewhere it would be quote "disastrous" for the ...