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With that as their keynote, legislators are steering toward votes four measures ranging from the probably worthwhile to the potentially disastrous. Ranked by their chances of becoming law, they are: 1) A bill to raise the federal gasoline tax 5?per gal. effective April 1 and use the estimated $5.5 billion a year in new revenues to repair highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. It passed the House last week by a resounding 262 to 143, but hit an unexpected snag in the Senate when three of that chamber's controlling Republicans began a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Howard...
...were, but they nonetheless raised taxes) and that accepting it was the only way to get Congress to agree to more cuts in social spending, an equally high Reagan priority. He followed up two weeks ago by endorsing a congressional proposal to raise the federal gasoline tax 5¢ per gal. and use the money for repair of the nation's highways, bridges and mass-transit systems, although he had said as recently as September that only a "palace coup" could...
...Means Committee rushed through a five-year $27.5 billion program to rebuild the nation's transportation facilities. Although eventual approval seems likely, disputes are arising over how the funds should be distributed, whether the work can begin soon enough to be effective and whether the 5?-per-gal. gasoline tax increase that would finance it is equitable to lower-income citizens. The House bill, backed by the President and leaders of both parties, also would increase taxes on tires and fees paid by truckers, a proposal that drew sharp fire from trucking lobbyists. Airline executives want to exempt aviation...
...tattered transportation arteries, the proposal received almost instant bipartisan support. The Administration plan, expected to be sent up to Congress this week, envisions a 5? levy on refiners, to be passed through to motorists at the pump, that would increase the total federal gas tax to 9? per gal. and cost the average driver an additional $30 a year...
...estimate: 7.5 billion gal., a significant share of the 36 billion gal. that the U.S. uses every day, besides that employed for irrigation and generating power. Adams used the example to show that students have to think in quantitative terms to understand social problems...