Topic – Highway Trust Fund

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  Rising gas prices will impact highway trust fund

  Less road maintenance money

  Marci Gilbert, Mar 17, 11.

  Public transportation may have more demand while highways receive less funds

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  Robert Puentes

  Brain Donors

  Senior Fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, Aug 22, 10.

  Not one state is really a "donor" state to the highway trust fund

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  Kay Bailey Hutchison says highway system has been built out

  Seeks gas tax opt out 4 Texas

  Jon Boyd, Aug 11, 10.

  FHWA Administrator Mendez and Senator Hutchison were keynote speakers, while Representative Harper-Brown led an afternoon panel.

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  House approves $7 billion highway patch

  Extends fund through Sept. 30

  Steve Hawley, Jul 30, 09.

  The money will maintain the fund's solvency through September 30, when SAFETEA-LU expires. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure within a week.

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  Senate bill would shore up Highway Trust Fund

  Fund running out of money

  Steve Hawley, Jul 21, 09.

  The fund, which is expected to run dry in August, would receive $22 billion and gain access to money siphoned away since 1989. Transit would get $4.8 billion.

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  US Chamber of Commerce supports gas tax increase

  But group demands reforms

  Steve Hawley, Jul 16, 09.

  Federal transportation funds are drying up, and lawmakers are wondering how to pay for future transportation investments.

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