Perhaps he should ask the head of the Department of Transportation whether there is a requirement to repair federal highways and build new ones.

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Even those Republicans who embrace federal spending on highways are unwilling to levy more taxes to pay for it.

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The federal gas tax is not pumping (sorry) enough money into the system to pay for the federal spending on highways.

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But the trucking industry has been beset with a chronic shortage of drivers, rising fuel costs, clogged highways and new federal rules that reduce the number of hours truckers can drive.

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To the extent the federal money is spent on needed highways and bridges, or other items that serve the public at large and thereby reduces the barriers to doing business, there is at least the prospect of additional economic activity.

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Much of the remainder would be for an infrastructure bank, which would try to leverage federal money with private capital to build highways, transit systems and the like.

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He proposed that the Federal Government bring the sections together with a network of highways and canals, and that it develop and conserve the public domain, using funds from the sale of public lands.

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State and federal transportation departments also would like to use the systems to gather information from the highways.

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During clashes with federal police in December, suspected members of La Familia set trucks and buses ablaze on highways in Michoacan.

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