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On the recordFebruary 10, 2015
the additional funding you are proposing would put us right at the point--if the gas tax had been indexed over time for construction cost inflation, that is about the amount of money we would collect this year.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio discusses the need for indexed gas tax funding for construction.

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