Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush raised eyebrows Wednesday when he suggested “people need to work longer hours” to grow the economy.

But Bush, the Washington Post writes, later clarified the comment, moving quickly to quell a fresh assault from Democrats eager to characterize the former Florida governor as out of touch. He made his initial comments to the editorial board of the New Hampshire Union Leader and later told reporters: “If we’re going to grow the economy, people need to stop being part-time workers, they need to be having access to greater opportunities to work.” The comments by Bush prompted a tweet from Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and a reply from Bush.

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Tax changes pitched: The Wall Street Journal writes two senior senators have outlined a plan to overhaul the U.S. system of taxing overseas corporate income, and potentially use the revenue as a source of funding for repairing highways and infrastructure. Sens. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, and Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, proposed imposing a one-time tax on profits that multinational companies have overseas at a rate lower than the current U.S. 35% corporate tax rate.

Gas-tax hike proposed: Also on the taxation and transportation front: The Hill writes Rep. Tom Rice, a South Carolina Republican, wants to increase the federal gasoline tax by 10 cents a gallon, to help pay for transportation projects across the country. The measure would offset the increase with a $133 income-tax credit that would be offered to drivers to minimize the impact of higher prices at the pump. Rice told the Hill his bill would give states certainty about the availability of federal transportation funding as a July 31 deadline for the expiration of current spending nears. The federal gasoline tax is now 18.4 cents a gallon.

Lew won’t back down on $10 bill: Sorry, critics, but Jacob Lew isn’t backing down on plans to issue a redesigned $10 bill. Facing blowback on the redesign, which will prominently feature a to-be-named woman as well as a smaller representation of Alexander Hamilton, Treasury Secretary Lew on Wednesday showed little sign he is reconsidering the idea, according to Politico. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said he was “appalled” by Hamilton’s downgrade. Hillary Clinton also said in an interview this week: “I think that it might be easier to change the 20 than it is to change the 10.”

House GOP leader backing anti-gay marriage bill: Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the chief Republican vote-counter in the House, has signed on as a co-sponsor of legislation described as an effort to protect people opposed to gay marriage from being penalized by the government. Bloomberg reports Scalise added his name to the bill dubbed the “First Amendment Defense Act.” The two GOP lawmakers who wrote the bill cast it as a way to clarify and strengthen religious-liberty protections in federal law, Bloomberg says. Scalise is among the 20 House Republicans who have become new co-sponsors of the bill since the Supreme Court’s ruling last month legalizing same-sex marriage.