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NEW POLL OVERVIEW:<br />
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Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp is proposing a $10.9 billion plan to address the lack of revenue that will be available to the Highway Trust Fund for the next eight or nine months.<br />
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The proposed plan would be funded by some fund transfers and revenue-raising measures, including $6.5 billion in new revenue from something referred to as &quot;pension smoothing&quot;. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span>Pension smoothing</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span> is an accounting action that allows companies to delay contributions to employee pension plans resulting in short-term corporate profits, producing more tax revenue that can be collected by the Treasury.<br />
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House Speaker John Boehner is in favor of Camp</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span>s plan to extend the U.S. highway funding until May 31, 2015, from and hopes to see it pass the House within two weeks.<br />
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In a statement, Congressman Camp stated that, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span>This is the only package with a proven history of getting big bipartisan votes in both the House and Senate. And, while it doesn't provide as much funding as I would like&mdash;enough to get through the end of next year&mdash;it does give Congress and the tax-writing Committees ample time to consider a more long-term solution to the Highway Trust Fund.&quot;<br />
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NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should congress pass legislation to allow companies to delay pension contributions to fund the </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span>Highway Trust Fund</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'</span></span>?<br />
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Undecided<br />
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PREVIOUS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should the legislature come back into session to grant additional revenue to schools?<br />
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Yes - 10%<br />
No - 85%<br />
Undecided - 5% <br />
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ONE COMMENT WAS MADE ON THIS POLL:<br />
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COMMENT #1<br />
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Education Funding<br />
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This is a political stunt by the Democrats because the media has not grasped the facts (and the public appears to be buying their story). The facts are that Governor Snyder and legislative Republicans have budgeted more than $1 billion to K-12 education in the last 4 years. That's 'billion' with a great big 'B.' About $1,000 more dollars in state aid is attached to every pupil in our public schools over that same time period. Michigan has suffered the loss of 57,000 fewer kids in our schools in that same time period. So in summary, we have a billion dollars more to spend on educating fewer students.<br />
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