to fund transportation and we voted out a six-year bill. the next stop, we have to fund it. and that s not in the jurisdiction of my committee and it went over to the senate fans committee and the house ways and means committee and the house ways and means committee acted and they acted on a package that is the worst possible thing. they shored up the trust fund instead of doing it for the end of this year, so we could act this year and give some certainty, they did until may, which is right up against the next construction season and they use gimmicks like pension smoothing, which we have used that before, but you know what? this is giving the companies another five years where they don t have to fund their employees pensions to keep the highway trust fund going for a few months. ed, you talk about all the challenges we re facing in the world that, we can t control, we can control this. no doubt. and senator, your thoughts on the gas tax, it hasn t been