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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 race is on to point the finger at who should shoulder the blame. our monday gaggle, washington bureau...

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, where's this? it's been a weird way it's 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 thing but will it hurt someplaces? yes. one reason this becomes complicated is because it hurts ...

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. we've got raytheon there. we don't know exactly what that will do. we've 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 didn't do across-the-board cuts. a lot of times politicians say 10%. i didn't do that. another example of how t...

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 chairman's rising toast. >> one thing for sure is certain, you don't 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, there's a sense of urgency about the dire consequences if the sequester goes into effect. there is no sense of urgency about coming up with a plan to avert it. overnight the white h...

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, there's 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 deal with the sequester. all that said, it is still not good day when one side is debating a polit...