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| Last Edited | ArmyDem May 01, 2008 08:32pm |
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| News Date | Friday, May 2, 2008 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Jared Allen and Jackie Kucinich
Posted: 05/01/08 07:33 PM [ET]
The gas tax holiday supported by presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) will be dead on arrival in the House, Democrats made plain Thursday.
It was senior aides behind the scenes who described the idea as “DOA,” but the party’s topmost leaders were clear that they sided firmly with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the only White House contender who opposes suspending the gas tax.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said “there’s no reason to believe that any moratorium on the gas tax would be passed on to the consumer.” She has left the measure off the list of energy proposals that she may try to attach to the supplemental Iraq war-spending bill.
Pelosi gave this apparent coup de grâce to the tax holiday just a day after Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said suspending the gas tax would “not be a policy that I would think is particularly positive.” |
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