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U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday said Congress must find a way to pay for a massive looming shortfall in funding to pay for crumbling highways, bridges and other infrastructure. Representative Bill Shuster, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said at a hearing he is working to find a "big broad bipartisan infrastructure bill" but acknowledged new revenue must be found.
Prominent Missouri businessman and Republican donor Stanley Herzog is in an intensive care unit of a hospital here after choking during a dinner Thursday night with Rep. Sam Graves and his brother, GOP State Chairman Todd Graves. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway had briefly joined the group at the table but left before the incident occurred, according to an account of the incident supplied to the Post-Dispatch.
A pilot with a commercial rating and more than 3,000 hours of flight time, Sam Graves co-chairs the General Aviation Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. He helped found the annual Wing Nuts Flying Circus, an annual airshow in his hometown of Tarkio, Missouri, and is restoring a 1943 Beech AT-10.
Yesterday, President Donald Trump kicked off his push for Republican tax reform - was it the sweeping reform, the likes of which we haven't seen since the prosperous Reagan years, that Trump touted on the campaign trail? Well, it certainly comes very close. On the campaign trail, Trump railed against the system in place, saying that his administration would simultaneously bring down the exorbitant taxes on industries and high-level employees while simultaneously closing the myriad of loopholes that currently exist in the overcomplicated US tax system; it is the combination of these two maneuvers that Trump believes would prove successful and advantageous for not only American industry but for American workers.
In a roundtable discussion hosted by Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Kevin Burch, president of Jet Express Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, and incoming chairman of the American Trucking Associations, emphasized the important role of well-maintained infrastructure to the trucking industry. "Having good, uncongested highways is important to my company and to trucking companies across the country," Burch said, pointing out that dedicated funding for freight projects in last year's FAST Act was an important win for trucking.