While it defends its turf on highway funding, ARTBA also is also pushing a proposal for a "critical commerce corridors" program, a long-term initiative focused on breaking up bottlenecks, widening roads, expanding access routes to airports and seaports and other projects related to freight movement.

FORBES: Concrete Proposals

Tell Congress to get past their differences and send me a road construction bill -- (applause) -- so that companies can put tens of thousands of people to work right now building our roads and bridges and airports and seaports. (Applause.) I mean, think about it.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Johnson Control��s Battery Plant

People living here illegally could begin to get green cards in 10 years, but only if a new southern border security plan is in place, employers have adopted mandatory electronic verification of their workers' legal status and a new electronic exit system is operating at airports and seaports.

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He said the team inspected airports, seaports, and other facilities and strategies Saudi Arabia had set up to deal with any outbreak.

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Mr. ANNAN: And I think we need to be able to take care of the concerns of Israel, and I understand the issue of rearmament that we need to make sure that arms do not come in either through the airports and the borders or through the seaports.

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For all the improvements of recent years, the road network remains dreadful, the railways overloaded, seaports clogged, airports struggling to cope with the huge increase in flights and electricity and water supplies in many places shockingly unreliable.

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