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May 4, 2012

Gas Prices Choke Funding for Broken Roads

Michelle Hirsch, Fiscal Times


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With Congress facing a June 30 deadline on reauthorization of the highway trust fund, the Congressional Budget Office weighed in Tuesday with a report showing that repairing the nation’s aging roads. . .

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