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Bill Shuster: “This is not the place to fight that battle. The place to fight this battle is when we bring ISTEA to the floor for…”

On the recordApril 17, 1996
This is not the place to fight that battle. The place to fight this battle is when we bring ISTEA to the floor for reauthorization. I am sure there will be a bloody battle, in our committee and on the floor, over the whole question not only of special projects but of the formula which is used to apportion the money to the States. That is the place to fight this battle.
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Bill Shuster
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the upcoming reauthorization of the ISTEA and the debates it will entail.

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