He appears on 'Meet the Press' with N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell to push for using stimulus funds on building projects. He also says higher gas taxes could help pay.

By Ari B. Bloomekatz

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined other political leaders Sunday to push for increased federal spending on infrastructure projects as a way to stimulate the economy and said that "one has to look at" increasing the gasoline tax as a way to pay for such public works improvements.

"In order for the economy to thrive and to live up to 100% of its potential, you need to have moved people and goods around very quickly; and so if that falls behind, then the economy falls behind," Schwarzenegger told host David Gregory on "Meet the Press."

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