On the recordMarch 12, 1998
In passing this comprehensive six-year surface transportation bill, the Senate makes two profoundly important statements to the American traveling public. First, we are telling the American public that we are intent on using the revenues that we collect at the gas pump, from the American highway user, on the purposes for which they were collected; namely, the maintenance, upkeep, and expansion of our national highway and transit systems. Second, we are telling the traveling public that we intend to reverse the federal government's chronic underinvestment in our national highway needs. I want to take this opportunity to recount the major milestones of a multi-step process that brought us to this point where we will pass a highway bill calling for a full $173 billion of investment over the six years, 1998 through 2003.
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