These Senators worked extremely hard for their States and at the same time, in the end, they worked together to make sure we would get a very strong bill. That is quite an achievement, frankly, as we move on to the next century, the next millennium. We are passing a major infrastructure bill--major. Every $1 billion of highway spending accounts for about 42,000 jobs. This bill is about $171 billion, roughly, over 6 years.
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