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Congress passes surface transport bill

Monday, July 02, 2012

The U.S. House and Senate on Friday overwhelming approved a new surface transportation bill on that provides $105 billion for construction and safety programs through fiscal year 2014. The legislation's passage comes after Republican and Democratic negotiators in both chambers used creative accounting within the federal budget to shore up a projected gap of several billion dollars in the Highway Trust Fund and dropped demands on some key sticking points such as green-lighting ...

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