Pete Domenici: “Yes, the Senator is correct. We have provided $8.5 billion in outlays above the President's budget request for…”

“Yes, the Senator is correct. We have provided $8.5 billion in outlays above the President's budget request for transportation. Even more critical, the bipartisan budget agreement and this budget resolution has as one of its primary discretionary assumptions that Congress will spend all of the highway trust fund receipts over the next 5 years. This will allow for increased highway obligations by the Appropriations Committee of $9.3 billion over the President's budget request for highways between 1998 and 2002.”