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There is an old saying among divorce attorneys that you know you’ve struck a fair deal when both sides are angry. We need to apply that principle to completing a transportation reauthorization before the end of the 112th Congress. So far, we have the anger part right.

This highway bill is about three important goals: jobs, jobs, jobs. When the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938 was passed, our nation was nine years into the depth of a depression. National defense and job creation motivated lawmakers to put aside their differences. Now, we are in a similar predicament and it is time for saner heads to prevail.

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