President Obama and the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee may be in the same political party, but Tuesday brought another reminder that they are not on the same page when it comes to infrastructure policy.

Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., the T&I chairman has tried to get a new multi-year transportation spending program through Congress to replace the old one that expired last September and is going through a series of extensions.

Obama wants to put off deciding what should be in a new long-term program, and how to fund it, while reshaping transport spending for now through such budget proposals as a new infrastructure fund that would decide where to spend federal dollars.