The transportation bill, now in its ninth extension, is a critical piece of infrastructure legislation that consolidates more than 100 separate programs into just five major investment categories (for efficiency) and establishes performance standards for these investments (no more "Bridges to Nowhere").

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Part of the intellectual rush of lacrosse and feel free to take my words with however many grains of salt necessary because I've handled a lacrosse stick perhaps a half dozen times my whole life, and only for short intervals comes from the sense of control one can experience when a piece of sports equipment becomes an extension of the body.

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Freedom of payments is an extension of financial privacy and digital cash-like transactions without financial intermediaries become a critical piece of that foundation.

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