Highlighting aspects of a report released Thursday by the Government Accounting Office, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) pounced on money from the Highway Trust Fund that has been spent on what the senior senators perceive to be "low-priority projects."
We've already talked about this on the RAI NewsBlog, and pointed to the article written by Erik Sofge in Popular Mechanics in February that predicted this problem, but here's more proof of how the term "shovel-ready" forced DOTs into a funding pickle, with few options but to repave rural rounds.
