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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.

On the recordJuly 15, 2019
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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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton discusses the reluctance to raise the federal gas tax despite state actions.

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