21.   Funding for highway projects is of considerable concern in Congress.

22.   Granger, too, downplayed any competition between the two highway projects.

23.   He also fought for higher gas taxes to finance new rail and highway projects.

24.   He has clashed with members of his own party over pork barrel spending, attacking a recent transportation bill he claimed was larded with wasteful highway projects.

25.   He said he planned to implement a similar policy in New York state, starting with state highway projects.

26.   He will be responsible for cutting red tape and overseeing border highway projects.

27.   He was appointed twice by Republican governors, both of whom strongly favored the highway project that the EPA blocked.

28.   He was chief engineer and consultant on highway projects, harbor improvements and tunnel construction throughout the Northeast.

29.   In mid-November, lawmakers gutted his proposal to halt a nationwide highway building project and to privatize the corporation that oversees the project.

30.   In more recent decades, the threat of a highway project discouraged people from moving in.