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“ THey said iT”

“it’s

crunch time

on transportation.”

—senate finance committee chairman ron wyden (d-Ore.) announcing an early July committee meeting to consider a short-term
patch for a cash-strapped highway account.

“Congress should be “To imply that these

embarrassed that it has changes had anything
to do with the crash
played chicken with the in New Jersey is
Highway Trust Fund and political opportunism

allowed it to become one of at its worst.”

the largest budgeting failures —Former FMCSA Administrator Annette sandberg, in

in the federal government.” a letter to the Senate Committee on Appropriations,
Subcommittee on Transportation, came out in support
of changes to the 34-hour restart provision and
—sen. Bob corker (R-Tenn.), with sen. chris Murphy (d-Conn.) slammed critics of the recent amendment proposed by
proposed a raise and index of the fuel tax in order to preserve Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for trying to link calls
the “user pays” principle and keep the highway Trust Fund for a roll-back of the 34-hour restart provision to the
solvent. recent New Jersey crash involving a Walmart truck and
comedian Tracy Morgan.

“We have long said that the fuel tax is the fairest, most efficient

way to fund our nation’s infrastructure and this practical,

bipartisan proposal…would put the Highway Trust Fund on the

path to solvency and provide the revenues we need to maintain

a 21 Century transportation network.”
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—American Trucking Associations (ATA) President and CEO Bill Graves hailed a proposal by Sens. Murphy and Corker to
increase the fuel tax to pay for infrastructure maintenance and construction.

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