http://thehill.com/business--lobby/rendell-gets-behind-infrastructure-bank-2009-06-24.html

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) said Wednesday that Congress should create a national infrastructure bank to prevent a conflict between President Obama and lawmakers over earmarks in a transportation bill.  Rendell said the new transportation reauthorization bill will be stuffed so full of earmarks that it will test Obama’s resolve to limit spending on parochial projects. “The president and the Congress are on a little bit of a collision course,” Rendell said at a forum on Wednesday hosted by Third Way, a centrist think tank, and Building America’s Future, a pro-infrastructure organization.