in a country where the estimated infrastructure gap is in the trillions, does it do enough, are we getting far enough in solving our problem? let me tell you that i would much prefer to see a larger bill, but i m also a pragmatist. i have to find the sweet spot. we can t pass a democrat only bill it won t happen in the senate. we must reach across the aisle and we did it and what we did is we kept the current level of spending, alleged inflation, but here is the great news, we also took a program called transportation infrastructure financing, and greatly increased that and the republicans and democrats agreed to do this, it s a leveragiing feature. it came from loss ang he less. they passed a sales tax to
in a country where the estimated infrastructure gap is in the trillions, does it do enough, are we getting far enough in solving our problem? let me tell you that i would much prefer to see a larger bill, but i m also a pragmatist. i have to find the sweet spot. we can t pass a democrat only bill it won t happen in the senate. we must reach across the aisle and we did it and what we did is we kept the current level of spending, alleged inflation, but here is the great news, we also took a program called transportation infrastructure financing, and greatly increased that and the republicans and democrats agreed to do this, it s a leveragiing feature. it came from loss ang he less. they passed a sales tax to build. using the program they could count on the federal government to front that money, do those projects over 10 years. the so republicans and democrats
1.8 million construction workers are holding their breath. and i think your set-up piece, i couldn t have said it better it s now in the lap of speaker boehner and leader eric cantor and i checked today, just before i came on the show, our bill will save 55,000 jobs in ohio. in john boehner s state. it will save 40,000 jobs in eric cantor s state. so, here you have those two leaders there, i would hope that they would not want to see more layoffs in these recessionary times we re finally getting out of slowly and painfully and should take up our bill and pass it. your bill, let s talk about the specifics for a moment. it s 108 billion over two years. 109 billion. that is two thirds the size of the infrastructure request in the president s budget. in a country where the estimated infrastructure gap is in the trillions, does it do enough,