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On the recordApril 1, 1998
What we want to do is keep 3 cents in Washington to maintain the current interstate system. If you come from Montana, where you are losing in this bill, we are going to keep a penny here to help you and the other heavy transit States. We are going to repeal the 4.3 cents enacted in 1993 that every Republican voted against, and we are going to get rid of the rest of the gas tax and let the States levy their own taxes and manage their own roads with their own regulations. I do not think that we are going to have any halfway built bridges that are going to end in the middle of a river. I think people are smarter than that. I know this, they are a lot smarter at home than they are right here in Washington. Vote for the Kasich amendment.
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John Kasich
Republican · Ohio

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Discussing a proposed amendment related to gas taxes and state management of roads.

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