The Feinstein-Murray amendment to increase transportation funding in the stimulus bill — with an emphasis on highways and mass transit in the background — just fell two votes short of passage in the Senate. Two Republican appropriators, Sens. Kit Bond (MO) and Arlen Specter (PA), voted in favor, with one Democrat, Mary Landrieu (LA), voting no.
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