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I thought I’d dig around a bit in “H.R. 3684—Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” the not very bipartisan infrastructure bill. Everyone’s talking about how the other bill for building back better will be funded, at the perhaps current price tag of $1.75 trillion. I haven’t seen much, though, about how this $1 trillion bill will affect the deficit. At 2,740 pages, it’s a big bill, designed to “authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.” As far as I’ve been able to tell, only a little more than $381 billion will address highways...

ROANOKE — U.S. Sen. John Kerry today blamed the administration's tax cuts for snuffing the prosperity of the 1990s and said he would end the Bush presidency the same way Bill Clinton did to the elder Bush in 1992. "If you liked what Bill Clinton gave you in eight years, you'll love what John Kerry will give you in the first four," the front-running Democratic presidential candidate from Massachusetts told a crowd of about 500 outside a downtown firehouse. At the morning rally, Kerry criticized an upbeat economic report released by the White House that concluded America's economy is getting...