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Facing Highway Funding Crisis: Remembering Ray Barnhart
One of the more significant budget and policy issues facing Congress and the Administration in the coming months will be how to continue to pay for the Nation’s most important transportation infrastructure, including its major highways, bridges and transit systems. The issue is coming to a head next year when the current surface transportation law, MAP-21, expires on September 30, 2014.
Posted in Congressional & Government Reform, News and Analysis, Transportation
Tagged 1981-82 gas tax debate, Drew Lewis, federal transportation funding, Federal-aid highway program, Highway Trust Fund, pay-as-you-go, President Reagan, Ray Barnhart, transportation infrastructure, user-fee principle
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