but, again, you all know this and that's one of the reasons why your president, tom donahue, rightly urged congress to stabilize the highway trust fund just a few weeks ago. i'm grateful to him and to you for stepping up and ringing the alarm bell on this growing crisis in america. that's also one of the reasons why we at u.s..put a ticker up -- u.s. d.o.t. put a ticker up on the website on how soon we're reaching insolvency and that's also why i am here today. because we need you to join us in raising the alarm bell and calling congress to act. for years, the growing infrastructure deficit has been an issue akin to termites in the basement. slowly eating away at our foundation. and now it is a wolf at the door, and when we add all of this up, crumbling infrastructure, significant new capacity needs, economic costs associated with not addressing these needs, congress either unwilling or unable to deal with business until emergencies loom, a highway trust fund fast approaching insolvency, a surface transportation bill close to retiring and the rest of the world running faster towards

your president, tom donahue, has been a very vocal leader on this issue. prodding congress to be courageous. now, at dot we happen to believe we can pay for infrastructure a different way, but i would much rather see a national debate about how we get there than whether. that's why i'm glad tom is standing up, and we absolutely agree that congress is going to have to show a little political courage to fix this problem. their courage increases when their core constituencies like the folks in this room, tell them it's okay to figure this out. it's actually the fiscally responsible thing to do. we need you to speak up. all of you can play a role in putting our transportation system on a more certain and sustainable course. we do it by letting congress know that one or two year band-aid won't cut it this time. tell them what is at stake for you. tell them what is at stake for your employees and the products you sell. tell congress to get to yes. i know they care about your priorities. now they care about your companies. i know they care about the jobs you crea

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to continue now with the broadcast that we would like to nstruct for our audience a interred to tom donahuee the id heaps of this country -- the elite, the 1% to run the country as if they are threatened during the jewish during theerun up at world war two. >> it is not the ideal formulationut i do have the degree of sympathy because more immigration improperly immigrated of low income workers will stimulated economy. lou: our salvation is to bring in? back i did not say salvation i did the say illegal. lou: why is that a solution with 20 billion and employ it? we back i am for tax reform i am for overhauling the federal budget, cutting spending we have to have a program. part of that is getting the the immigrants here. lou: absolutely we apply to relieve the status quo intact and eand the program instead of deal with the issues. >> by box set every day. shows what a a clear divided there still is. it is a complex issue. there are a lot of different issues but whether it comes to a halt immigrati benefits the economy we have seen poll after poll the priority is not immigration right now but

as tom donahue said was absolutely essential, tom donahue, the president of the chamber of commerce of the united states of america. so that i would hope that, mr. leader, and mr. speaker, that we could bring that to the floor, have a debate, have consideration of it. my view is it has the votes in the people's house to pass. if it were brought to the floor. i would hope that that could be done. and with that i will conclude, may have one remark or so, but i yield to my friend the majority leader. mr. cantor: i thank the gentleman for yielding. and underscore or respond to that that i don't believe that there is requisite number of votes in the house to pass the senate's comprehensive immigration bill. we have taken a position on our side of the aisle, we are not for that bill. the gentleman rightfully points out that the speaker and our leadership put out some tandards to provide a path for discussion about how we go about addressing a very broken immigration system. the problem is, mr. speaker, we don't have a lot of trust on our side about how this administration will implement the