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House passes rail tax extension

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

House Speaker Joe Souki spoke during a recess Tuesday. House lawmakers easily approved a two-year extension of the excise tax surcharge on Oahu to help bail out the Honolulu rail project, but some charged that Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s warnings about raising property taxes to fund the project amounted to “blackmail.”