I was somewhat disappointed that, over the past five years, actually, four years of implementation of the SAFETEA legislation, that few States actually used that language that I crafted at great labor.
James Oberstar: “I was somewhat disappointed that, over the past five years, actually, four years of implementation of the SAFETEA…”
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Oberstar expresses disappointment over the underutilization of SAFETEA legislation.
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