If we do not achieve authorization by October 1st for the next Federal fiscal year... our spending or investment on highways and transit would drop somewhere between 30 and 40 percent for the next Federal fiscal year.
Oberstar emphasizes urgency for federal funding authorization to avoid drastic cuts.
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