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March 29: ‘A Dozen or So' Senators Delay Passage of Oberstar's Highway Funding Fix from Streetsblog Capitol Hill
- A contentious congressional dispute over $932 million in transportation funding remains unresolved this week after the Senate approved a one-month extension of federal aviation law rather than a three-month version of the bill that included a fix to the provision at issue. House transportation committee chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) had added language to the three-month aviation measure redistributing the $932 million based on existing highway funding formulas -- rather than giving 58 percent of the money to four states by extending project earmarks, as would occur under the jobs bill that President Obama signed 10 days ago.
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