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On the recordMay 22, 1997
What is the meaning of a trust fund? Let's be honest. You are keeping $26 billion, according to my calculation, holding it back, of the revenues paid at the gas tank, as if it were poker chips to play where you so desire elsewhere in the budget. We specifically did not put in offsets because the offset is there in a trust fund established 42 years ago with a legislative history which clearly said that it belongs to the people and should be returned to the people. That is why we did not have an offset. The offset is there in the form of the money in the highway trust fund. Shall we rename that budget deficit fund?
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing the management of the highway trust fund during a Senate floor debate.

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