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Congressman Merrill Cook urges Utah lawmakers to press for transit funding, opposes Internet taxation
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Visiting Congressman Merrill Cook told the Utah House that federal appropriators could deliver hundreds of millions for highways and transit and argued for a permanent ban on Internet taxes; members pressed him on local revenue impacts and gun policy.
Congressman Merrill Cook, visiting the Utah House in a Committee of the Whole, urged state lawmakers to press congressional appropriators for transportation funding and warned against Internet taxation.
"We expect up to another $100,000,000 can come in to help that important effort," Cook said of Olympic-related projects and added that the federal government will continue funding highways, citing "$210,000,000 for highways next year" and an effort to free "up to $600,000,000 for mass transit," from which he said "$200,000,000 in the second…
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