No funding answers, but criticism from Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) emerged from a House transportation committee hearing Feb. 1 looking at how to finance a $1 trillion investment plan.
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee ranking member DeFazio took aim at Congress for not having the “guts” to increase user fees, like the 18.4 cent-per-gallon gas tax, when it passed a five-year reauthorization of federal highway and transit programs in 2015.
“The status quo is that we are frozen in amber,” DeFazio said. “We are refusing to invest in our infrastructure.”
He said there were three obvious ways to raise ...
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