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Big bucks for roads? Senate OKs $295 billion despite threat of veto

Published: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:12 a.m. MDT
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These projects, cited by fiscal conservatives as "pork," will be one sticking point as House and Senate negotiators try to work out a compromise.

Another difference that must be resolved is the formula by which the federal government divides up money from the highway trust fund for the states. The trust fund comes from the 18.4 cents a gallon federal gas tax, and about half the states, mainly from fast-growing or heavily traveled areas, complain that they pay more into the fund than they get back from Washington.

Two Wisconsin Democrats, Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold, voted against the bill. They were joined by Republicans Sam Brownback of Kansas, John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Jon Kyl and John McCain of Arizona and Judd Gregg and John Sununu of New Hampshire.


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