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On the recordSeptember 23, 2013
I think people are just going to have to start thinking of this differently, that it's not a--if that's a tax increase, I don't know what is, when the industry that uses the infrastructure wants to pay a higher fee so that they can have better infrastructure.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Klobuchar emphasizes the need for a new perspective on infrastructure funding.

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