Trent Lott: “We continue to talk and work to see if we can find a way to move these issues forward in an understandable and fair way.…”

“We continue to talk and work to see if we can find a way to move these issues forward in an understandable and fair way. We have somewhat of a Gordian knot. We are trying to find a way to untie that and move forward. That is what the leader has done here today. Many of the leaders in the Democratic Party have indicated they want to vote for the gas tax repeal. The President indicated that he would sign that. And so the majority leader has set up a situation here where the pending business is a clear, direct vote on repealing the gas tax of 4.3 cents a gallon, which was voted in in 1993. And that money has been going into the General Treasury, not the highway trust fund for highway and bridge improvements. He has set it up so that we can address the issues. Everybody says they want to address this in a fair way. It is not connected to the TEAM Act or connected to minimum wage. It is the gas tax repeal, pure and simple.”