Washington, D.C. - As Congressional Democrats propose legislation to shore up the highway and unemployment trust funds, Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) demands a little common-sense.  He believes Congress should pay for the bankrupt highway trust fund with unspent stimulus dollars instead of asking for more.  

“Instead burdening future generations with more debt and asking taxpayers to provide yet another bailout, why don’t we take some of the unspent stimulus dollars, which has utterly failed to work, to fund the Highway Trust Fund?”

“When you have a wound that won’t stop bleeding, you don’t keep patching it up with band-aids and hope the bleeding stops, yet today, we stand here and that’s exactly what Congressional Democrats are proposing,” said Brady.

Congress will likely approve a $7 billion bailout for the bankrupt Highway Trust Fund today; just months after President Obama signed a $787 billion stimulus package, much of which has yet to be distributed.