MAP-21 Transportation Measure Goes on the Books

As a standing-room-only crowd of lawmakers, construction and transportation officials, and others in the White House’s East Room looked on, President Obama on July 6 signed into law a long-overdue $104.4-billion, 27-month highway-and-transit authorization bill. Putting down the last of the 12 pens he used to sign his name, Obama said, “All right. It’s done,” to a round of applause from the audience.

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