These include highway repairs, corporate tax reform and housing, he said.

Precedent exists for Federal underwriting of highway repairs.

This proposition will double the state gasoline tax and apply the increase to highway repair and mass transportation.

Much of that is for highway repair and construction, linking up the dots of its far-flung communities.

There is $2.75 billion to reimburse states for highway repairs.

The highway repair, expected to cost more than $250 million, was supposed to be completed by October but the date has been pushed back to April.

The cutoff forced the county to suspend highway repairs and tax refunds.

He said, though, that there would be more highway repair in the next few years, leading to new safety problems.

He said, for instance, that he would support a rise in the state gasoline tax if it were used for highway repairs.

States had to agree to the limit if they desired to receive federal funding for highway repair.