Here's a puzzle: The House Transportation Committee is meeting this afternoon, but nowhere on its agenda is the governor's latest motor vehicle registration fee increase bill. The reason? "We asked them to hold off of the registration fee bill, until we know what's happening with the gas tax bill," said Jason Kreizenbeck, Gov. Butch Otter's chief of staff. Both originally were three-year bills, he noted, but then the gas tax bill got scuttled in the House last Thursday. Asked if he has a particular time frame in mind before one or both of the bills will re-emerge in some new form, Kreizenbeck said, "This session."

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