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Latham votes against airport bill

March 16, 2000 By admin

Congressman Tom Latham was the only member of the Iowa delegation to vote against an airline industry reform bill which passed the U-S House yesterday. It’d spend 40-billion dollars for airport improvements, including 12-million in Iowa. Latham says the bill sets up an entitlement system for airports and downplays safety.Truckers are again honking their way through Washington D-C today, protesting the high price of fuel which threatens to shut some of them down. Diesel now costs an average of two dollars a gallon. One proposal would remove the federal excise tax on fuels, but Latham is wavering on the issue. He says the four-point-three cents may not make much of a difference.The Alexander republican fears farmers will soon be especially hard hit by high fuel prices. One estimate says farmers nationwide can expect a three billion dollar increase in the cost of spring planting — in addition to looming reports of a drought ahead. Latham says there are solutions.Latham supports opening the federal government’s strategic petroleum reserves to increase the gas supply and cut demand.

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