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88 billion was cut from the transportation bill that the dems wanted.

Bush's budget this year was lean he had major cuts in medicare and social services.

Bush is cutting military bases taking heat to cut spending.

This transportation bill had been sitting around for years our infastructure is dying. Roads are an essential. Lets blame bush just to blame bush.

Budget defecit is down over 100 billion this year thanks to his cuts in spending and the tax cuts. The direction is looking good.

Highway funding is desperately needed, at least in the Chicago area. However, it should be done by formula, that is to say by how many miles of roads and how many bridges you have. What is not needed is pork barrel projects for landscaping and the like.

Very well stated but the closed minded whiners on here will never understand.

Clinton allowed our roads and bridges here in Middle America to go downhill as the NE received more gas tax dollars then they paid in and we received a lot less in places like here in Oklahoma. From 1998-2003 the NY/NJ area received 162¢, $7,240,745,000 compared to Oklahoma received 71¢, $-636,076,000 and before 1998 the disparity was even more with Democrats in control of the Senate.

Like Senator Inhofe said today -- he wants people to drive into Oklahoma saying our Interstates are in great shape instead of hitting all kinds of rough roads and potholes everywhere.

I don't blame Bush, I blame, mostly, the Senate. THEY chopped and hacked and added pork to the bill. The House did a pretty good job, all things considered.
The previous poster who said the bill had been lingering for years was correct, since 7/98, and all they have done since is pass stop gap bills, and measures.
This is catastrophic for my section of the Transportation Industry. Those 48,000 jobs?, we'll lose that much in indepenents in the next 2 years alone. Why?
Thanks for nothing.
I spent 2 months out of my life, not earning money, or paying attention to my business, so I could help Republicans get elected. My own Senator, Johnny Isaakson, whose office I have contacted 5 times on this matter, wouldn't even give us the courtesy of a letter, a return call, or a kiss my asterisk!
I really hate it, that in this country, these days, the little guys are being trampled on and the government encourages it. Say good bye to the "mom and pops" in our world.
It doesn't matter whether they are Pubby's or Dunmmy's, they're all alike now.

Gee, do I sound bitter?