Throughout most of the years of the federal highway program, Wisconsin and several other states have sent far more money to the federal highway trust fund than we have gotten back to build and maintain our roads. We also have designated in the bill the Wisconsin Development Corridor, which will make Wisconsin eligible for funds from a seperate transportation program that is being created, to help improve infrastructure from the southwest corner of the state, at the Iowa border, up through Fond du Lac to Green Bay. The bill is going to be voted on on the floor of the House of Representatives toward the end of March. And the representatives will get together in what is called a Committee of Conference between the House and the Senate to iron out differences in the two bills, and then report those bills back through the House and Senate and put the bill on the President's desk for his signature. We'll have to work very hard in conference to try to preserve the gains that Wisconsin has achieved in the House bill so that they are included in the final bill when it goes to the president.
Soft money is a legal term for campaign contributions that are exempt from important restrictions.
Most campaign fundraising scandals involve soft money. Contributions received within 20 days of an election must be reported within 24 hours. Campaign contributions from non-citizens will be illegal. And labor unions will be required to get the voluntary permission of each member before charging that member union dues for political campaigning. Q. Let's take a moment for developments in the White House scandals.