joining me now from washington to discuss all this is bart jansen, the transportation reporter for "u.s.a. today." so, bart, it's kind of classic math that only seems to work in congress where you can approve maybe a project for six years and only fund it for three. >> well, it is an accomplishment that they got a six-year bill that they hope to reconcile and get completed, get sent to the president's desk by thanksgiving. the last time we had a six-year bill was 1998. the four-year bill that expired in 2009, there have been 35 short-term extensions since then. so everybody's pleased to get a six-year set of policies so that state and local officials can plan road building, bridge building better, but now the hard part comes-- how do you find the funding to support $325 or $342 billion worth of crugz goals. >> sreenivasan: where have they found the funding so far? what nip nips and cuts have been made to try to make this possible? >> so far, there are three maj pots of money to add to the amount they raise from the gas tax. they would take-- the senate version would take $17 billion from