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Frank Lucas: “People pay user fees when they buy gasoline, diesel, airport…”

Featuring: Frank Lucas, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, District 3

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Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.)

Published | Video Starts at 19:47

But one of the battles we're having here is if you want to do a lots of social welfare spending and you're calling it infrastructure, that's not right. People pay user fees when they buy gasoline, diesel, airport tickets to have better roads, to have better bridges, to have better harbors, better ports. so that supply chain will work more efficiently. They've got to get their infrastructure package back to where it's really infrastructure. It pass overwhelmingly if it was really roads, bridges, railroads, ports, airports. (19:47–19:57)

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Asserts that user fees fund infrastructure improvements.

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