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Once in a great while, a major piece of legislation comes along that can significantly change things for the better. The American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act is one of them.

Nearly seven years have passed since Congress last passed a ground surface transportation bill, so the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee made the most of the opportunities provided by this new legislation.  The American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act revolutionizes transportation policy by reforming and streamlining programs, cutting red tape in the project approval process, increasing states’ flexibility to fund their most critical needs and encouraging private sector participation in financing and building projects.

Here’s just one example: this bill takes more than 100 existing programs and, by consolidating redundancies and getting rid of those that only add to government bureaucracy, has whittled them down to nearly 30.

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