Wall Street Journal: Rep. Oberstar pushing $69 billion second stimulus for transportation projects
Dec. 3, 2009 | 8:36 am
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The Wall Street Journal reports that House Transportation Committee Chairman James Oberstar on Wednesday called for at least $69 billion in new federal spending on highway and transit projects, a bid to use a second stimulus bill to address a looming shortfall in transportation funding.
Speaking at a news conference on Capitol Hill a day before the White House convenes its “jobs summit,” Mr. Oberstar said $69 billion would be “a nice down payment” that would upgrade the nation’s transportation system and create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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