Accordingly, there is no question that the federal highway program needs to make a substantial net investment in the highways of Idaho.

A new national highway program was initiated in Mexico between 1989 and 1994.

Presently, the Federal authorization for all highway programs combined is about $14 billion.

Responsibility for the highway program "is the heart of the committee in my books," he said.

One faction of Republicans wants to see an increase in spending on highway programs.

The three states would also benefit from a $3 billion national increase in spending on highway programs, to $18.3 billion.

"We should not look for any big highway program to begin in January, that's for sure."

This year, barely, we enacted a highway program over the President's veto.

Chief among them is a measure that would reauthorize highway programs.

And the interstate highway program, the most important public works project in American history, facilitated the abandonment of the cities.