i just had an opportunity to say hello to my friends, bill shuster -- my friend, bill shuster.you are a friend of ray lahood. i bring that up to say that the governor and myself and people like bill and ray have distinct philosophical orientations as members of congress. i think i can say without reservation that we are pretty mission-oriented, particularly the transportation committee. we may have arrived -- we may have had different reasons and different motivations for voting the way we did. we move in the end to get the vote done on the basis of the project in the proposals that were in front of us. i put that forward because i would like to know from you, in the wake of chairman rogers indicating his skepticism -- probably the wrong word -- that the spending goals, while they may have had their difficulties and challenges getting past in terms of authorization, there has been a lot of fighting over the numbers -- there has not been a lot of fighting over the numbers once they are agreed to. there were numbers within that sequestration figure that had been agreed to. i unde

i just had an opportunity to say hello to my friends, bill shuster -- my friend, bill shuster. you are a friend of ray lahood. i bring that up to say that the governor and myself and people like bill and ray have distinct philosophical orientations as members of congress. i think i can say without reservation that we are pretty mission-oriented, particularly the transportation committee. we may have arrived -- we may have had different reasons and different motivations for voting the way we did. we move in the end to get the vote done on the basis of the we move in the end to get the vote done on the basis of the project in the proposals that were in front of us. i put that forward because i would like to know from you, in the wake of chairman rogers indicating his skepticism -- probably the wrong word -- that the spending goals, while they may have had their difficulties and challenges getting past in terms of authorization, there has been a lot of fighting over the numbers -- there has not been a lot of fighting over the numbers once they are agreed to. there were numbers wit

hear from mayor anthony fox, the transportation .ecretary you will also hear from a resistive bill shuster and they .ill talk about infrastructure later on at 2:30 you will learn about the call -- about the global economy is part of the meeting. you'll hear how things are eating dealt with in global issues. all part of the national governors association summer meeting. you can see that live today at two: nerdy and also catch up later on our c-span library. later0 and also catch up -- at 2:30 and catch up later on our c-span library. our next caller -- caller: the facts are in the the speculation started with oil. a dollar per was gallon i was in construction. i was vice president of the union. i was out of work for two years. gasoline is at three dollars per gallon. it it devastated the economy. three wholesale places in pennsylvania went out of business. the speculation on gasoline is four dollars per gallon now where i am. the middle-class and the poor to not have any money. it doesn't matter what products you make. it doesn't matter what you do. is so much.living we do not have the mone

eastern with transportation secretary anthony fox and house transportation committee bill shuster. we talk about infrastructure needs in states across the country. later in the day at 2:30 eastern a discussion about how states are dealing with the global economy. that will be hosted by the chair of the national gerch's association. governor's jack and mary fallon. you can watch those of live tomorrow on c-span. acting irs commissioner was on capitol hill today. he answered questions at the house oversight subcommittee hearing about increases in identity theft tax fraud cases. during that hearing, california congressman darrell issa, the chairman of the full oversight committee used his ln questioning to discuss the ongoing investigation in to the irs targeting of political groups. here is a portion of that exchange. >> i have some frustration i'm bringing to you today. as you know, a number of months ago, the president made it clear that the behavior that occurred in isolated basis in cincinnati was unacceptable. he charged that we would get to the bottom of it. we have gotten to t

with anthonycuss foxx and republican bill shuster. >> from capitol hill is a political reporter.ennifer, this particular build deals with the irs tax penalties and the prevention of the irs from imposing those under the health care law. what sort of penalties would citizens face under the 2010 law? individual mandate -- the supreme court looked at the mandate. if you do not have insurance, there will be a fee. be $95. >> this is summer from the 40th attempt to block the health care law. seenany of the bills traction in the senate? if not, why do republican leaders continue to put them before the house? >> there is a small handful regarding minor things. there is a small tax division. business forms, if you remember that. that was largely bipartisan. that was something that was recognized as not a great vision of the law. for the large part am a major those are not getting into the senate. they would never get past the president's veto. it is their 40th attempt to repeal all or part of the law. i will not be happening any time soon. they do not like this law. they will continue to

we first heard from bill shuster, u.s. representative who is the chairman of the house committee on transportation and infrastructure. we got the vantage point of the house of representatives. immediately following his answers to questions, we ,eceived another distinguished the newly appointed secretary anthony foxx, who held forth on his blue points on our infrastructure -- viewpoint on our infrastructure. we had great questions from the governors who were there. i want to thank everyone for being that meeting, and for participating in the discussion. >> thank you. >> for the education workforce committee, governor malloy.sorry to interrupt. >> thank you. the education workforce ready, we discussed increasing workforce innovation to close the skills gap, create jobs, and we heardily incomes. from a distinguished panel, including the president and chief executive officer of the work lace they stand connecticut and we also heard from the director of the iowa workforce development. as discussed what we were doing and i to ac