Bill Title: A resolution calling on all fifty states and their congressional delegations to question the authority of the federal government, under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, to collect a federal gas tax from each state and then hold the dollars hostage by requiring each state to provide matching funds to receive those dollars back and memorialize Congress to reconfigure the distribution of transportation money to the states.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 39-19)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-06 - Referred To Committee On Transportation [HR0279 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Rick Jones [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-024	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Arlan Meekhof [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kenneth Kurtz [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-058	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Dave Hildenbrand [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Goeff Hansen [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-034	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Hugh Crawford [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-038	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Darwin Booher [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-035	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Kevin Daley [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-026	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Judy Nerat [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-108	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jeff Mayes [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-096	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jennifer Haase [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Paul Scott [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Thomas McMillin [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-045	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Tom Pearce [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-073	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator John Proos [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-021	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Wayne Schmidt [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-037	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Phillip Pavlov [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-025	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Justin Amash [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-072	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bill Caul [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-099	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative James Bolger [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-063	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kevin Green [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-077	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Eileen Kowall [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-044	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Walsh [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-019	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Jim Stamas [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Gail Haines [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-043	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Cindy Denby [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-047	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Joel Sheltrown [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-103	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Tonya Schuitmaker [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-026	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator James Marleau [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-012	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Tory Rocca [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-010	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jimmy Womack [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-007	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bettie Scott [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-003	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative LaMar Lemmons [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-002	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Deb Kennedy [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-023	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Michael Huckleberry [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-070	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Harold Haugh [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-022	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Fred Durhal [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-005	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Larry DeShazor [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-061	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Richard Ball [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-085	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Tim Moore [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-097	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mary Valentine [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-091	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Richard LeBlanc [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-018	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Matthew Lori [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-059	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kim Meltzer [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Sharon Tyler [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-078	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Robert Dean [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Roy Schmidt [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-076	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ed Clemente [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-014	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Terry Brown [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-084	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Gino Polidori [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-015	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Vicki Barnett [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-037	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Marty Knollenberg [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative David Agema [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-074	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Kenneth Horn [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Charles Moss [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-040	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bill Rogers [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-042	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Pete Lund [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Paul Opsommer [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-093	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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