11/19/2019
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"If we fail to address this underlying question of how to pay for the Nation's intermodal transportation network, all we will have are lofty visions, stacks of plans, and piles of freight network maps."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Mr. Chairman, thank you for scheduling this hearing to hear testimony from major manufacturing and agriculture industries that rely on the Nation's freight transportation ..."
"These businesses and the United States more generally continue to reap the benefits of past infrastructure investments."
"If it imposes an extra cent higher cost on the highway maintenance than the 80,000-pound truck, why shouldn't it pay an X-percent higher tax?"