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To extend funding for transit projects. if congress had missed the deadline, many of have of those projects would have run out of money and just stopped. that could have meant temporary layoffs but it lasts 90 days. mike is on capitol hill tonight. why 90 days? doesn't everybody wanted a longer deal here? >> shep, the senate had passed a two-year deal, they want a five-year extension with transportation money due to run out. speaker boehner moved on three months. >> we're trying to make sure we don't a stoppage of construction that is really important. so extending this current highway bill fo...

>> senator rum accuses of you hypocrisy he knows you have a paid lobbyist to try to get ear marks and he knows in 2006 your state government bragged about getting 600 million in highway ear marks and 5 million in transit projects. aren't your hands unclean, too? >> that is the process they put in place in washington, d.c. the reason states have to play that game is because washington is broken. wou we have a $15 trillion debt because both parties has been involved in let me scratch your back and you scratch my back on the ear marks. all they are doing is policing america. >> one of your big pr...

>> santorum notes that you have a paid lobbyist for the state of texas in washington to try to get ear marks and he notes that back in 2006 your state government bragged about getting more than $600 million in highway ear marks and $500 million in transit projects. so again, aren't you hands unclean here, too? >> that is the process that they put in place in washington, d.c. and i will tell you that the reason that states have to go up there and play that game is because washington is broken. we have a $15 trillion debt because both political parties have been involved in this obvious let me s...

His record. >> santorum notes that you have a paid lobbyist for the state of texas in washington to try to get ear marks and he notes that back in 2006 your state government bragged about getting more than $600 million in highway ear marks and $500 million in transit projects. so again, aren't you hands unclean here, too? >> that is the process that they put in place in washington, d.c. and i will tell you that the reason that states have to go up there and play that game is because washington is broken. we have a $15 trillion debt because both political parties have been involved in this obvi...

>> santorum notes that you have a paid lobbyist for the state of texas in washington to try to get ear marks and he notes that back in 2006 your state government bragged about getting more than $600 million in highway ear marks and $500 million in transit projects. so again, aren't you hands unclean here, too? >> that is the process that they put in place in washington, d.c. and i will tell you that the reason that states have to go up there and play that game is because washington is broken. we have a $15 trillion debt because both political parties have been involved in this obvious let me s...