There is no assurance if you cut the (tax) by 3 cents, the consumer gets a dime of it.
We were looking at a deficit when we were working on that budget. The question to the Highway Patrol team that was looking at it was -- how much can you spend between now and May, and the answer was basically $8 million.
The No. 1 priority with me is getting more people moving across the state on safer roads.
I've had an opinion on it for a number of years and that is that we ought to build it. I hope we're gonna address it this session.
The leadership of the North Carolina Senate feels very strongly that they both go, or no go.