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My State enacted a gas tax increase. We have the highest unemployment in America.
7/15/2009
I agree with Chairman Oberstar. I read all the way through your testimony and I said this is really good.
7/15/2009
this delay here and this business as usual is really unfortunate. I am very disappointed in the Administration's positio...
7/15/2009
But if we do an 18-month with no policy changes, it is going to kind of grind to a halt, right?
7/15/2009
America urgently needs a robust transportation bill along the lines of what you passed on May 24th.
7/15/2009
I have proposed the idea of just taxing oil speculators.
7/15/2009
I think it would be a better investment than the 20 bucks a week that only those who still have jobs are getting.
7/15/2009
I would just say to the Administration: I don't get it.
7/15/2009
I fully support you in your urgency to pass something, and we should do so, assert our authority as the United States Co...
7/15/2009
I have proposed taxing oil by the barrel, with the idea that some of that tax could flow upstream to the OPEC cartel.
7/15/2009
I proposed the idea of bonding by putting a construction cost inflation on the gas tax and delaying that until such a ti...
7/15/2009
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Peter  DeFazio
out of office

usa, Oregon

2,543 Quotes

Born5/27/1947 (age 78)

PartyDemocratic

  • U.S. House of Representatives

    1/3/1987 - 1/15/2022
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