1.   Also, will Congress provide a half cent of the current federal gasoline tax to Amtrak?

2.   And to make that possible, he believed, an increment of the federal gasoline tax should be earmarked for Amtrak.

3.   Bad ideas now floating in Washington include price controls on energy, a windfall profits tax on the oil industry and cutting the federal gasoline tax.

4.   But his advisers caution that the plan would do little to address the escalating gasoline prices, especially since Bush has opposed cutting the federal gasoline tax.

5.   But it raised the federal gasoline tax by about a nickel and hiked income taxes on wealthy Americans and middle-class Social Security recipients.

6.   Congressional tax-writing committees, and not the transportation panels, ultimately will determine what happens to the federal gasoline tax.

7.   Fleischer stopped short of ruling out the possibility the White House would support an effort to scale back or eliminate federal gasoline taxes.

8.   For their part, Democrats contended that Republicans were making the budget deficit worse by repealing the federal gasoline tax.

9.   House Majority Leader Dick Armey retreated Tuesday from a suggestion that Congress could bankroll a reduction in the federal gasoline tax with cuts in education.

10.   Instead, they urged state regulators grappling with local pollution problems to adopt more moderate adjustments to conventional gasoline, rather than adopt the federal reformulated gasoline.