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CONGRESSMAN REPORTS
Coathwd from page 2 the saved mileage to build 1,452 miles of additional superhighways without authorization of Congress and, in fact, without consultation with any commtitee or member of Congress. This: decision committed the federal taxpayers for another $1 billion 600 million. These officials ignored1 the 25 billion ceiling on federal costs specifically written into the law. We now have a highway trust fund insolvent to the extent of approximately $12 billion.
In 1958, pursuant to a bill approved by the President, Senator Byrd’s proviso was suspended for two years to speed up highway building as an anti-recession meaT sure. I now am glad to say I opposed this bill, the effect of which Mas to permit borrowing from the highway trust fund receipt? of future years and to create a crisis now in which no new money will be available for additional construction atrth^rizatfens for several years, unless spmething is done.*
To meet bioth immediate aand long-range problems of the trust fund President Eisenhower wants Congress to increase federal taxes on highway lasers about $1 billion a year. I am unalterably opposed to this. Highway users are now paying over $2 billion 200 million a year to the federal gevemment to build road?. They are paying an additional $J billion 600 million in federal taxes on motor vehicles and their operation toward general gevernment expenses. Neatrlv $4 billion a year is enough.
Another plan, being advanced by the House Public Works Committee, calls for financing the highway program on borrowed money for two more years. It does not deal with the long-range problem. I am also against that I believe
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