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Transportation The House will vote this evening on a huge transportation spending bill. The bill, typically packed with pork in the form of special projects for members' home districts, is more than 40 per cent bigger than the previous transportation bill, and would violate spending limits set in the balanced budget agreement by about 26 billion dollars. In addition, Democrats are angry because they won't be able to offer a drunk driving amendment that was included in the bill already passed by the Senate. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

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The House will vote this evening on a huge transportation spending bill. The bill, typically packed with pork in the form of special projects for members' home districts, is more than 40 per cent bigger than the previous transportation bill, and would violate spending limits set in the balanced budget agreement by about 26 billion dollars. In addition, Democrats are angry because they won't be able to offer a drunk driving amendment that was included in the bill already passed by the Senate. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.