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Railway Age, Oct, 1999

> Efforts to limit the percentage of federal transit aid available to any one state to 12.5% of the national total failed last month as the Senate unanimously approved a $49.5 billion FY 2000 Transportation Appropriations bill. Like legislation approved earlier by the House, the Senate bill established FY 2000 transit funding at the $5.8 billion level fixed by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA 21).