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Steve Cohen: if Congress would have kept the gas tax at the rate it was when it was initiated, we would have been OK.

On the recordOctober 17, 2023
if Congress would have kept the gas tax at the rate it was when it was initiated, we would have been OK.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Cohen argues that maintaining the original gas tax rate would have prevented funding issues.

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