Cord Byrd: “I would view that happening with some disappointment, if not sadness. I hope that no effort will be made to repeal the…”

“I would view that happening with some disappointment, if not sadness. I hope that no effort will be made to repeal the gas tax. If that happens, that would mean an increase in the deficit. And if the author of such an amendment happens to think that that would bar the amendment that has been offered by the distinguished Senator and two others of my colleagues, and myself, and has been cosponsored by 37 additional Senators--if the author of such an amendment thinks for a moment that that would bar the carrying into the effect of the amendment we have been discussing, that Senator would be sadly mistaken because there are moneys in the trust fund sufficient to carry out the purpose of the amendment that I am offering, or will be offering at the appropriate time, which I have sent to the desk for printing. So, No. 1, it would increase the deficit. No. 2, it would have no effect on the amendment that is being offered by the other Senators and I.”