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Senate olds $41.3 B for Mass Transit age of 2 <br /> Published Wednesday.March 11,1 998 <br /> $41 <br /> iB for Mass Transit <br /> } _ Senate OKs <br /> By JIM ABl � dissociated Press writer <br /> startribme..com <br /> ion wrld WASHfNGTON (AP) -- Fast-growing cities around the country <br /> would get a bigger piece of the mass transit budget under an <br /> agreement worked out in the Senate. <br /> With the compromise Tuesday that would send more money for rail <br /> modernization to cities that traditionally have not stressed lass <br /> transit, the Senate moved closer to completion of a major <br /> transportation funding bill. <br /> The Senate has already approved $173 billion over six years for <br /> highway building and safety, and on Tuesday wrapped up work on <br /> the mass transit portion of the bill, voting 96-4 to fund mass <br /> transit programs at $41.3 billion, up 30 percent over the last year <br /> years. <br /> Only minor issues retrained as the Senate moved toward final <br /> passage this week after two creeks of work on the legislation. <br /> Prospects were not as good in the House, where Transportation <br /> Committee Chairman Bud Shuster, -P a., said Tuesday he did not <br /> expect Congress to finish the bill by May 1, when the current <br /> provisional funding plan expires. <br /> Shuster told the National League of Cities that Memorial Day, May <br /> 25, was a more likely target for sending a bill to President Clinton <br /> for his signature. <br /> task force headed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich., l - a.., was <br /> to meet today to discuss how to proceed on the highway and mass <br /> transit legislation. <br /> Shuster wants $181 billion for highways} bridges and safety <br /> programs and $37 billion for mass transit, and douse leaders have <br /> yet to resolve whether they can come up with that money and still <br /> beep within the spending caps set in the balanced budget agreement <br /> of last gear. <br /> Completion of the mass transit portion of the Senate bill was <br /> delayed when several senators demanded a change to a system where <br /> a large part of funds goes to I I " old" systems mostly in the East <br /> and North. <br /> article?this lu =03 l 1 P-HIGHWAY-SPEND&date=11--Naar-98&word=funds&word=funding3/1?/98 <br />