The Nation - News from Aug. 30, 1987

The job of planning and building highways should rest with state governments, not a Congress that funds so-called “demonstration” projects for individual members, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole told about 800 state legislators at a convention in Coeur d’Alene, Ida. She said members of Congress were more interested in building vote counts with pork-barrel projects, while needed bridge and highway repairs are going undone. To give state governments clout over Congress in road planning, she said she would like to shift some motor fuel taxes from federal to state control.