07/13/2009
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"So if you are not proposing to spend what we are already collecting, why would you propose raising taxes further on waterway users?"
"And increasing the fee, increased the amount of money deposited into the Trust Fund by about $20 million a year."
"A logical time to be able to get that amount of construction in the ground."
"And the President's budget estimates that the Trust Fund will collect about that same amount in the upcoming year, $104 million."