CBO Estimates Cost of Infrastructure Commission

CBO has released a cost estimate for an eight-member commission that would be established to "complete three studies and issue recommendations regarding the infrastructure needs of the United States." A day after the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, the Senate approved, by unanimous consent, a measure that would create the National Commission on the Infrastructure of the United States, which CBO projects would cost $4 million over its three-year lifespan.
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