Finally!

Over the weekend, the Senate passed and President Bush agreed to sign the $286.4 billion transportation bill passed last friday by the house. The new bill ends two years of haggling between the White House and the Congress on how best to fund the nation's transportation projects. While we have cause to rejoice, as state DOTs can now confidently plan future highway projects knowing what kind of budget they'll be working with, we must also pause to wonder how it comes to pass that a republican president and a republican congress did not have more to offer the nation's construction industry than $286.4 billion at a time when the nation's infrastructure has deteriorated so bady. I notice that energy interests had no problem getting what they wanted in their recent bill. I will say this. Work on the successor bill to this one must start NOW. Your comment?