Kevin Brady, the top Republican on Ways and Means, threw cold water on the idea of sudden support among his party for an increase or index of the gas tax, saying there’s been no change. “There really has never been either a vote or a nose count, or even a family discussion,” Brady told our Tanya Snyder, while admitting that he was “a little surprised” when he heard that Senate Republicans were privately examining a funding package that includes indexing the gas tax to inflation (as well as a truck tax and a new electric vehicle fee) for their surface transportation bill.
