make sure we raise private sector money to do the projects and the public-private partnership, rebecca higgins -- haze raise your hand. give rebecca a nice round of applause. >> know rebecca from our days at dot. she works hard for the money. so hard. for the money. but she helps -- public works commit year, like a point person on infrastructure piece. she was reminding me that there have been over over the last 30 years, public-privatepaster inships that led to major improvements and there's some good stuff that can be done at that time way, and it's true. but the toe say that's the major way to pay for this stuff, probably not. probably not. so the issue we can all think about stuff we'd like to build or do, to talk about how bad things we are, how many hours we sit in traffic, how many -- i'm going to talk about the stuff nobody wants to talk about and that is how we pay for it. you have all heard the old saying no silver bullet. and i feel that way with respect to how to pay for this infrastructure. particular through roads, highways and bridges. but also on the airport and be port side. a

rebec rebecca higgins are you hear? give her a nice round of applause. [ applause ] . she works hard for the money. so hard. for the money. but she is on the epw on the environment and public works committee. she is a point person on the infrastructure piece. she was reminding me on the way over here in the last 30 years there have been 30 public/private partnerships that have led to major improvement. but to say that's going to be the major way that we're going the pay for this stuff, probably not. probably not. so how are -- the issue -- we can all think about stuff we'd like to build or do to talk about how many hours we sit in traffic every year and how much repair work needs to be done on our vehicles. i'm going the talk about how we pay for it. how do we pay for it? you've all heard the saying, there's no silver bullet? and i feel that way with respect to how to pay for this infrastructure at least the roads, highways, bridges side but also on the airport and port side. that needs help as well. clean water, clean -- waste water treatment as well. and we have had