41.   Safety advocates complained that it was the first federal highway bill that would kill more people than it saved.

42.   Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said the highway bill would force reductions in other domestic programs financed from the same pot of money.

43.   Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., discusses highway funds aimed at Connecticut included in a federal highway bill.

44.   Senate Republican majority leader Trent Lott threatened to shelve the highway bill next Tuesday if Democrats did not relent.

45.   She argues it is the first federal highway bill ever that will cost more lives than it will save.

46.   She has denied wrongdoing and is still actively lobbying, having won provisions for her clients in the massive highway bill passed this summer.

47.   Since the Senate had approved the measure, it would still be considered by the House-Senate conference committee working out a final version of the highway bill.

48.   Texas will be deluged with highway funding under a highway transportation bill that is expected to pass Congress.

49.   That vote was sandwiched between two failed attempts to end a filibuster of a huge federal highway bill that has slowed Senate business to a crawl this week.

50.   The Clinton administration has warned that the entire highway spending bill may be vetoed if this amendment is included.