Lawmakers achieve compromise on funding package

Friday, May 17, 2002

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- After days of intense negotiation, lawmakers on Thursday reached a tentative agreement on a $511 million funding package for transportation that would go before voters this August.

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