mr. shuster. mr. shuster: are we going to spend less? yes. but i believe by streamlining we'll create more jobs. >> what are you waiting for? bring it up then. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, a valued member of our committee and the upon sor of h.r. 14, the every other body's nonpartisan, bipartisan transportation bill, which is twice as good as h r. 7. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. our republican colleagues are telling us we should forget about the 15 months since they crafted the highway bill. mr. bishop: they're telling us to forget about the last 16 weeks during which time their bill imploded and the bipartisan map 21 bill passed the senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. now they're telling the american people they need three additional months to find the money an shape a policy, an effort that thus far has elieu them, that

mr. shuster. mr. shuster: are we going to spend less? yes. but i believe by streamlining we'll create more jobs. >> what are you waiting for? bring it up then. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, a valued member of our committee and the upon sor of h.r. 14, the every other body's nonpartisan, bipartisan transportation bill, which is twice as good as h r. 7. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. our republican colleagues are telling us we should forget about the 15 months since they crafted the highway bill. mr. bishop: they're telling us to forget about the last 16 weeks during which time their bill imploded and the bipartisan map 21 bill passed the senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. now they're telling the american people they need three additional months to find the money an shape a policy, an effort that thus far has elieu them, that

mr. shuster, four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for four minutes. mr. shuster: i thank the chairman. listening to the last speaker, i believe that the other side of the aisle has got a case of amnesia. because i was here in 2007 and 2011 when they had the majority in the house, the majority in the senate and the president sis -- presidency. they did nothing. that's not true, the gentleman from oregon, he was chairman of the highway subcommittee and we passed a bill by voice vote out of the subcommittee, a democratic version, voice vote. that means it came out of subcommittee in a bipartisan way. there was a lot in that bill i didn't like but it was probably what the gentleman, the last speaker and the majority party wanted to do, expand government control of the highway system. expand the decision making process to the bureaucrats in washington instofede allowing the people in the states to make more of those decisions. so it's startling to me to hear the critic

mr. shuster, two minutes. pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for two minutes. mr. shuster: thank you, mr. speaker. i wish the gentleman from california would have showed that kind of passion when the stimulus bill was passed two years ago and come to the floor and said that stimulus bill should be a infrastructure bill. and there's only a very, very small portion, i think about $68 billion of that $800 billion stimulus package, that went to the infrastructure of this country. where was the gentleman when that outrage was happening? if you want a real stimulation, which we believe this stimulates the economy, this helps put concrete on the roads and repairs our bridges and puts people to work, this bill will do that. an 18-month bill is not going to put any kind of certainty out there. i correct myself, it will create certainty, the certainty is that it will bankrupt the trust fund. in less than two years. our bill that we have been trying to pass here, a five-year bill, that's what the

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