A bipartisan group of House members is complaining because California and three other states would receive more than half of a $1-billion pot, while 22 states would receive nothing.
Los Angeles Times
By Richard Simon
February 26, 2010
Reporting from
Washington - The Senate jobs bill, passed this week in a rare bipartisan vote, is running into resistance in the House because it is too generous to California and a few other states, critics said.
A bipartisan group of House members is complaining that the measure would steer more than half of a nearly $1-billion pot of highway money to California, Illinois, Louisiana and Washington state, while 22 states would receive nothing.
California, the home state of Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairwoman of the Senate committee that oversees public works, would receive $278 million, more than any other state.
The provision is "unfair to the taxpayers of 46 states, unresponsive to the whole nation's infrastructure and job creation needs, and unacceptable," according to one letter signed by a group of House members...
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