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Hauser: "Would you favor raising the federal gas tax to pay for that as a stimulus, and of course to help the infrastructure?" Franken: "Uh, no. I'd keep it on the table, but I wouldn't favor that. ... " [time elapse three minutes] Hauser: "OK, so, you would, Al, leave the gas tax on the table—" Ciresi: "What does on the table mean? Does that mean that we're not going to do it or it's a potential?" Hauser: "Is it a potential?" Franken: "There's different ways to pay for infrastructure–it has potential, sure, absolutely, and I think we should do it in this state too." Ciresi: "We've got to say what we're going to do. We can't just go out to people and say, 'we may do this, we may do that.' We've got to have a program, otherwise it's Washington as usual." ("At Issue" KSTP-TV, February 10, 2008)
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