It is 46 percent over the 6-year period. You have a 6- year bill. The bill that just expired, TEA-21, was $218 billion over 1998-2003. This new bill will be a total of, for contract authority, $308 billion; total budget authority would be $318 billion.
Discussing funding levels in transportation legislation during a floor speech.
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