It was my understanding when this bill went through the Committee on Ways and Means, they put a 4.3 cent tax on the diesel fuel used by railroads, and somehow in this clean bill it is no longer there. It was several years ago as part of the deficit reduction package of 1993 that that tax was placed.
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