Supplemental spending bills that would provide a significant boost for construction this year are moving on Capitol Hill. Beneficiaries would be firms in the transportation sector and in the growing homeland security market.
On May 24, the House passed a $29.4-billion package that includes $5.5 billion to help New York City recover from the Sept. 11 attack, $5.8 billion for homeland security and $15.8 billion for the Dept. of Defense. The bill, approved 280-138, also would restore at least $4.4 billion in fiscal 2003 federal highway aid that President Bush had proposed cutting