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O’Malley: Highway Bill Means 10,000 Jobs for Md.

Posted on the 07 July 2012 by Easytracgps @EasyTracGPS

A $100 billion transportation bill President Barack Obama signed into law Friday will put 10,000 people in Maryland to work on state bridges and roads and represents “what can actually be accomplished if Congress comes together,” Gov.Martin O’Malley said in an interview.

O’Malley: Highway bill means 10,000 jobs for Md.

View of eastbound over the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge and approaches, from Virginia to Maryland

O’Malley attended the signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Friday along with a bipartisan group of lawmakers who worked on the bill, including House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica, a Florida Republican, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat who heads the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

 


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