AGC Calls for User Fee Increase as House Ways and Means Committee Convenes Hearing on Highway Trust Fund
AGC Calls for User Fee Increase as House Ways and Means Committee Convenes Hearing on Highway Trust Fund
AGC CEO Stephen Sandherr joined with Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer and other association leaders during a June 17 media event to call on Congress to raise the highway user fee to pay for a new long-term surface transportation bill. During the media event, Sandherr said that raising the gas tax was not as hard as some predict. He noted that 89 percent of legislators who voted to raise their state gas tax or equivalent user fee during the past two years were re-elected to office. And he added that once members of Congress begin to review their options, they are likely to have the same eureka moment that every bipartisan group has had – that raising the gas tax is the best possible option for addressing chronic funding shortfalls.
AGC CEO Stephen Sandherr joined with Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer and other association leaders during a June 17 media event to call on Congress to raise the highway user fee to pay for a new long-term surface transportation bill. During the media event, Sandherr said that raising the gas tax was not as hard as some predict. He noted that 89 percent of legislators who voted to raise their state gas tax or equivalent user fee during the past two years were re-elected to office. And he added that once members of Congress begin to review their options, they are likely to have the same eureka moment that every bipartisan group has had – that raising the gas tax is the best possible option for addressing chronic funding shortfalls.
