WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND

According to Ray Barnhart, former head of the Federal Highway Administration, "When the trust fund was put on-budget in 1968, it was the old concept of the government providing the people both guns and butter. The government didn't want to alarm the public about the costs of war." Because of this, highway trust fund expenditures are now subject to over-all federal budget spending limitations called for in budget reconciliation agreements like the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.

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• Publication Date: 1995-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 34-35
• Serial:
  • Better Roads
  • Volume: 65
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: James Informational Media, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0006-0208
  • Serial URL: http://www.betterroads.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Budgeting; Conferences; Federal government; Government funding
• Identifier Terms: Highway Trust Fund
• Old TRIS Terms: Federal budgets
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00711502
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 29 1995 12:00AM