More than 700,000 jobs will be lost if the United States Congress
doesn’t enact legislation that will fund the Highway Trust Fund in August. The
House of Representatives passed the appropriations bill, but the Senate has yet
to vote on the matter. The Association encouraged the people of Virginia to
call their representatives and tell them to garner support from their
colleagues for the bill. Such efforts seem to have borne fruit, and Sen.
Barbara Boxer has promised results shortly. This is good news because 43,000 of
the possible job losses would come from Virginia itself.
