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of Congressional Democrats, in particular Albert Gore Sr., George Fallon, Dennis Chavez, and Hale Boggs. That bill authorized paying for highway expansion by establishing the Highway Trust Fund, which in turn would be funded by increases in highway user taxes on gasoline, diesel, tires, and other materials. For his part, during 1954–1955, Eisenhower had adamantly refused to support a highway bill that either raised user taxes or increased deficit spending, instead favoring a plan that would create a government corporation that would issue highway bonds. However, Congressional Democrats and members of his own administration, including his Comptroller General Joseph Campbell, publicly criticized Eisenhower's proposed government corporation on that grounds that its bonds would, in fact, count towards the national debt.
379: 40: 2032: 433:, may have convinced him to support construction of the Interstate System when he became president. "The old convoy had started me thinking about good, two-lane highways, but Germany had made me see the wisdom of broader ribbons across the land." His "Grand Plan" for highways, announced in 1954, led to the 1956 legislative breakthrough that created the Highway Trust Fund to accelerate construction of the Interstate System. 517:, tolls continue to be collected, even though the turnpikes have long since been paid for. The money collected is used for highway maintenance, turnpike improvement projects and states' general funds. (That is not the case in Massachusetts, where the state constitution requires the money be used for transportation.) In addition, there are several major 437:
transportation for the national economy. In the event of a ground invasion by a foreign power, the U.S. Army would need good highways to be able to transport troops and material across the country efficiently. Following completion of the highways, the cross-country journey that took the convoy two months in 1919 was cut down to five days.
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Eisenhower's role in passage of the 1956 Federal-Aid Act has been exaggerated. Eisenhower's preferred bill, authored by a group of non-governmental officials led by Gen. Lucius Clay, was voted down overwhelmingly by the Congress in 1955. The bill Eisenhower actually signed in 1956 was the brainchild
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An act to amend and supplement the Federal Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1956, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide additional revenue from taxes on motor fuel, tires, and trucks and buses; and for other
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Though Eisenhower is sometimes described as having advocated for the highways for the purpose of national defense, scholarship has shown that he said relatively little about national defense when actually advocating for the plan, instead emphasizing highway fatalities and the importance of
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The convoy was memorable enough for a young Army officer, 28-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Dwight David Eisenhower, to include a chapter about the trip, titled "Through Darkest America With Truck and Tank", in his book
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that paid for 90 percent of highway construction costs with the states required to pay the remaining 10 percent. It was expected that the money would be generated through new
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Some biographers have claimed that Eisenhower's support of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 can be attributed to his experiences in 1919 as a participant in the
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on fuel, automobiles, trucks, and tires. As a matter of practice, the federal portion of the cost of the Interstate Highway System has been paid for by taxes on
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into law. With an original authorization of $ 25 billion (equivalent to $ 215 billion in 2023) for the construction of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of the
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in the act's title was because some of the original cost was diverted from defense funds and "because of s primary importance to the national defense".
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that had been built prior to the Interstate Highway Act were incorporated into the Interstate system (for example, the
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Toll turnpikes in the following states have been declared paid off, and those highways have become standard
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Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
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and toll tunnels included in the Interstate system, including four bridges in the
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The money for the Interstate Highway and Defense Highways was handled in a
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with New Jersey, New Jersey with New York, New Jersey with Pennsylvania,
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The Greatest Decade 1956–1966 Part 1 Essential to the National Interest
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1956 U.S. legislation creating the Interstate Highway System
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Historical background of the Interstate Highway System
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Index

Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956
Great Seal of the United States
Acronyms
84th United States Congress
84-627
Statutes at Large
Stat.
374
16 U.S.C.: Conservation
23 U.S.C.: Highways
U.S.C.
16 U.S.C.
ch. 2, subch. I
23 U.S.C.
ch. 1
George Fallon
D
MD
388–19
41–39
89–1
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pub. L.
84–627
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
bill
Interstate Highway System
public works
Highway Trust Fund

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