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March 17: Fun Times Ahead As Transportation Bill Takes Shape from WIRED Magazine
- As Congress starts hammering out a transportation spending bill, keep your eye on who asks for what and how the horses are traded. Transportation is a tried-and-true way for legislators to bring home the bacon, so we're sure to see legislation packed with pork barrel projects that range from the necessary to the advisable to the ridiculous. Negotiations over the long-awaited, oft-discussed replacement for the SAFETEA-LU transportation bill passed five years ago are sure to be vicious. The bill, which many hope to see introduced before November's midterm election, comes as a seemingly unbridgeable partisan divide leaves Congress paralyzed and turns even routine bills into bitter ideological battles.
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