Gas tax proposal said dead in House

Published: May 2, 2008 at 8:45 AM
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WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- U.S. House of Representatives Democrats have told presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain the gas tax holiday proposal is dead.

Both Clinton, D-N.Y., and McCain, R-Ariz., have made the summer suspension a major part of their campaign. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is against the move.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said and she has left the proposal off energy measures she may try to add to the supplemental Iraq war-spending bill. She said there was no guarantee that any moratorium on the gas tax would be passed on to the consumer.

Earlier, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said suspending the gas tax wouldn't be a "particularly positive policy."

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