Excerpt from Impact of Federal Mandated Maritime User Fees: Hearing Before the Subcommittees on Coast Guard and Navigation and Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session I am also concerned about the effect or the potential bad that could come from President Clinton's proposed fuel tax increase on our already distressed maritime industry. These numerous assess ments and proposed taxes will drain the life out of our recovering economy while directly diminishing our trade competitiveness in the world economy. Finally, like you, Mr. Chairman, I want to commend the staff at the gao for what appears to be an excellent report about this issue and look forward to their summary today. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my remark but I would like to move for unanimous con sent to have Congressman Michael Castle's statement introduced in the record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.