The National Defence Highway Act actually is very interesting because the entire system of interstate highways was developed under the Eisenhower administration.
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The Higher Education Policy Act, the acts of 1958, '59, just like the National Defence Highway Act of 1956 were vehicles by which public goods were generated under the rubric of national defence.
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But if you go back to the debates in Congress over why those investments were important you see that it was all about, according to the individual members of Congress who were supporting the National Defence Highway Act, it was all about getting munitions rapidly from Boston to San Diego and to Dallas and everywhere else in the event of a national emergency.
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To put this another way, roughly three-quarters of Recovery Act highway funding is already being invested as part of the largest investment in the nation's infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System back in the 1950s.
America has a grand tradition of national planning, from Thomas Jefferson's vision for roads and canals in 1808, which influenced policy for the next century (and led to America's first transcontinental railway) to Dwight Eisenhower's Federal Highway-Aid Act of 1956, which created the interstate system.
"Stopping in a bus stop is an offence under Section 243 of the Highway Code and the Traffic Management Act of 2004, " Mr Cox said.
And it's one of 8, 000 highway projects that have been approved under the Recovery Act across this country -- nearly 5, 000 of which are already under construction.
The Recovery Act included the most serious investment in our infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.
The Recovery Act that we put forward had one of the biggest investments in infrastructure since Eisenhower started the Interstate Highway System.
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