Letters to the Editor
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@Tigerboy
@ Tigerboy and others who pointed out that Obama supported a similar gas tax holiday in the Illinois Senate.
On Meet the Press this morning, Tim Russert asked the same and Obama acknowledged those votes and said :
SEN. OBAMA: And, and that's my point. I voted for it, and then six months later we took a look, and consumers had not benefited at all, but we had lost revenue.
MR. RUSSERT: So you learned from a wrong vote.
SEN. OBAMA: Yeah, I learned from a mistake. And, in addition, what happens is, is that this would come out of the Federal Highway Fund that we use to rebuild our roads and our bridges. And if we don't have that fund, then we're looking at thousands of jobs being lost in Indiana and in North Carolina.
That's straight from the transcipr of the show -vhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24445166/