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Dr. Boozman's Check-up

As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I’m glad that the Committee is exploring ways to do more with less. We must stretch investments further, while reinvesting every dollar collected through federal fuel taxes into safe and reliable transportation infrastructure. Maintaining our roads and bridges is vital to economic development in Arkansas. At a hearing today, our Committee examined these issues. Last year, Congress passed new highway legislation, known as MAP-21, with broad bipartisan support. This legislation will improve our roads and bridges conditions, and it requires the U.S. Department of Transportation to eliminate wasteful bureaucracy that causes costly and harmful delays to projects. You can watch as I question witnesses from the Department of Transportation to make sure that these cost-saving reforms are implemented as required by the law.