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Earl Blumenauer: “Where is the sense of urgency for the cost to families who are having $300 a year or more in damage to their cars? The…”

On the recordMay 20, 2015
Where is the sense of urgency for the cost to families who are having $300 a year or more in damage to their cars? The fact that we are not being able to move product because we are stuck in traffic? Then our ports, our airports, our roads, our rail--we just had an example of its instability--where is the urgency? I would, respectfully, suggest that we reject this wrongheaded approach and deal with real tax reform and the R&D tax credit. But in the meantime, maybe the Ways and Means Committee could find a week that we could spend working together to rebuild and renew America.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon
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May 20, 2015

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