Journal of Commerce: Illinois Dem calls on Obama to back House’s $500 billion reauthorization over another SAFETEA-LU extension
Dec. 3, 2009 | 9:10 am
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The Journal of Commerce reports that Rep. Dan Lipinski, an Illinois Democrat, has urged President Obama to drop White House opposition to the House’s $500 billion, six-year transportation reauthorization.
“Boosting transportation funding right now offers both the short-term benefit of quickly creating jobs and the long-term benefit of enhancing the fast, safe and efficient transportation of people and goods,” Lipinski, a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, wrote to Obama.
The administration favors an 18-month extension of the 2005 reauthorization. Go to the Journal of Commerce to see the entire article.
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