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The Washington Post tells us that Congress is considering a transportation bill that will spend $260 billion over the next five years. It would have been helpful to tell readers that this is equal to roughly 1.3 percent of projected spending over this period. It is a bit more than 3.7 percent of projected discretionary spending over this period.