Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Senate Rejects Senator Paul's Plan

  • {Washington, D.C.}...Tuesday, the Senate voted 60-38 to reject a plan by Senator Rand Paul to divert some federal transportation spending for additional bridge repairs in Kentucky and other states. The proposed amendment to a fiscal 2012 spending measure would have eliminated $700 million for bike and pedestrian paths, wildlife tunnels and landscaping and designated the money for bridge repairs. Paul says his plan required no additional taxes and did not increase the national debt. President Barack Obama used the Brent Spence Bridge linking Cincinnati and northern Kentucky and the closed Sherman Minton Bridge between Louisville and Southern Indiana as a symbol of the nation’s deteriorating infrastructure, a prime target of spending in his jobs bill.