It looks like nobody would be punished if we did at the Federal level what the States have already done at their level.
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “It looks like nobody would be punished if we did at the Federal level what the States have already done at their level.”
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Norton discusses the reluctance to raise the federal gas tax despite state actions.
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