KEY VOTE ALERT s still a remarkably bloated and inefficient piece of legislation. True reform would devolve infrastructure building and maintenance back to the states and end or greatly reduce the federal gas tax. Bills that do that are currently being sponsored by Rep. Tom Graves (H.R. 3264) and Sen. Jim DeMint (S. 1164). Supporters of H.R. 7 will also say that devolution takes time, but that this bill is going in the right direction. This is standard politician-speak for slowing down the reform agenda so that business-as-usual can resume sometime in the near future when nobody is looking. The time for reform is now. Our Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market policies and will be distributed to our members and to the public.
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