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Off in the future, 5 tuesday a gallon. >> microphone bin there in chicago. >> to the congressman who wants to ease your pain at the pump by slashing the federal gas tax. but how would roads and bridges be paid for them? tom graves joinings now. sir, the current gas tax is 18.4 crepts a gallon and you want to cut that down. how would you fund highways and bridges at the federal level if you cut that tax back in. >> well, really, this is all about -- we're reauthorizing the transportation funding model so we need to rethink it. we need a 21st century solution to a 20th century problem. 1956 is w...

Democratic issue, it's really not. this is a middle class issue. >> and there were two factors that created the post war prosperity, post world war ii prosperity in the country that can be recovered. one was a public education system that worked for a lot more people than it works for now. access to college with the gi bill. and the other was a sense that there was a role for public money to be spent in terms and along with private growth. what gave us the internet? what gave us interstate highways? what gave us dish washers? >> let's stop with the first two. what gave us the internet? dwight ...

One, bill clinton passed one, george w. bush passed one. a six-year highway bill that's paid for -- >> i know, the problem is, eisenhower broke the interstate system back in the '50s. he wouldn't be sitting around pussyfooting like you guys, coming up with reasons you can't get it done. you say you're for infrastructure. let's get back to mr. mcdermott. we're using up his time. why don't the republicans, like this republican, like theiate jim oberstar works they bounced out of congress last year, why don't they support what they say? he says he's for building and fixing bridges and all but his...

George w. bush passed one. a six-year highway bill that's paid for -- >> i know, the problem is, eisenhower broke the interstate system back in the '50s. he wouldn't be sitting around pussyfooting like you guys, coming up with reasons you can't get it done. you say you're for infrastructure. let's get back to mr. mcdermott. we're using up his time. why don't the republicans, like this republican, like theiate jim oberstar works they bounced out of congress last year, why don't they support what they say? he says he's for building and fixing bridges and all but his leadership isn't pushing this...

The same reason president obama hasn't advocated for a six-year highway bill is the same reason that the republican leadership hasn't offered the plan, is because you've got to come up with a way to pay for it. john boehner a few weeks ago in a speech here in d.c. said he's looking at doing a six-year highway bill using the current gas tax coupled with revenue from offshore leasing of offshore drilling rights. i don't care what the pay fors are, but ronald reagan passed one, bill clinton passed one, george w. bush passed one. a six-year highway bill that's paid for -- >> i know, the problem is...