Senator Hassan continues to focus on going after Big Oil’s billions in tax breaks and is pushing to suspend the federal gas tax.
Suspend the federal gas tax.
Occurrences
She wants to suspend the federal gas tax for the rest of the year.
Evidence
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The campaign announced an ad highlighting Hassan's push to suspend the gas tax for the rest of 2022; the ad transcript says she wanted a federal gas-tax suspension and a gas-tax holiday.
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The introduced bill listed Sen. Kelly acting for himself and Sen. Hassan among others. It would set the gasoline tax rate to zero for gasoline removed, entered, or sold before January 1, 2023.
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Congress.gov lists S.3609's status as Introduced, with latest action on February 9, 2022: read twice and referred to the Senate Finance Committee. Hassan is listed as an original cosponsor.
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Hassan asked unanimous consent for the Senate to discharge the Finance Committee, immediately consider S.3609, and pass it. Sen. Crapo objected, and the presiding officer stated that objection was heard.
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The preliminary U.S. Code text in effect in March 2026 still imposes a gasoline excise tax of 18.3 cents per gallon plus the 0.1-cent Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund rate.
Assessments
Hassan publicly backed a federal gas-tax holiday for the rest of 2022 and took meaningful Senate action toward it. She was an original cosponsor of S.3609, which would have set the federal gasoline tax rate to zero through the end of 2022, and she later tried to move the bill by unanimous consent on April 7, 2022. That effort was blocked, the bill never advanced beyond committee referral, and the federal gasoline excise tax remained in federal law afterward. Because she made a serious legislative attempt but did not achieve the promised suspension, the promise counts as not delivered.
Hassan publicly backed suspending the federal gas tax and took concrete legislative action through S.3609 and a unanimous-consent request in 2022. However, the bill did not advance beyond introduction/referral, the floor request was blocked, and the federal gasoline excise tax remained in effect. The promised suspension was therefore not delivered, but the serious legislative effort warrants the effort badge.