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Senate to move forward with transportation bill
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate agreed to move forward with negotiations on the federal highway and transportation bill.
Democrats were refusing to name negotiators for a joint Senate-House conference committee on the bill. They said they were being excluded from the actual writing of the bills.
The Senate version of the bill authorizes $318 billion while the House version authorizes $284 billion. Both are above the $256 billion mark President Bush says he will accept.
The Indian Reservation Roads program is taken from a small portion of the federal highway funds. Depending on the final bill, tribes could receive up to $1.9 billion through fiscal year 2008.
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