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The daily flashback -- it was this day in 1919 when the gas tax was born. oregon became the first state to tax gasoline, charging 1 cent per gallon. 94 years later drivers in oregon now pay 30 cents in taxes per gallon. but as cars get more fuel efficient, oregon is considering a different type of tax to make up for the lost revenue. they will track you by the mile. congress is back to work today after a week-long break. with $85 billion in sequester cuts taking effect in just four days, the r...

Ever happened in the history of the federal government and all this? if it is as bad as everybody is saying it is, where is the urgency of meetings, where are the plans, wheres this? its been a weird way its been all rhetoric and no action. >> because it is not in fact as bad as hitting up against the debt limit and it is not as bad as what will come later in the month when the resolution that finances the federal government runs out and we might have an actual government shutdown. it is not the...

Sequestration is really harming our states and our national economy. >> the sequester was put in place to be a hammer, not a policy. now here we are just a week away. find another way to do it and get it done now. >> arizona, choose. weve got raytheon there. we dont know exactly what that will do. weve got the federal government over there in my opinion not doing their job. >> i think there should be a limbed government but i done like random changes. if you look at my budget, i didnt do across-...

Can move forward on. >> even on a night that was supposed to be apolitical, the looming budget cuts were inescapable even showing up in the nga chairmans rising toast. >> one thing for sure is certain, you dont let issues fester. you get to deal with education and health care and even a sequester. >> there you go. how do we know that the looming automatic cuts will go into effect at least in the short term? well, theres a sense of urgency about the dire consequences if the sequester goes into ef...

In his op-ed, "when the president asks that a substitute store the sequester include not just spending cuts but new revenue, he is moving the goal posts." the white house fired back, theres never been any question that the president seeking revenues as part of a plan to replace the automatic cuts. woodward is on shaky ground when he insists that the white house never wanted revenue to replace the sequester. in fact that was the top democratic demand during the super committee that was created to...

Sorm of victory. supreme courts docket is crowded with big cases this term. on the role of affirmative action and college admissions and gay marriage. on wednesday the court hears a challenge to the voting rights act which could have far reaching implications on how southern states conduct elections. then on thursday, the world will watch the vatican as pope benedict officially ends his papacy and of course kicking off a dramatically very political exercise there in pick being the next pope. t...

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