Excerpt from National Highway System Designation Act of 1994: Hearings Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session The interstate system has no rivals. It is the world's largest, safest and best transportation network. It turns impassable Obsta cles - that is, mountain ranges, forests, deserts - into scenic attrae tions. It ties all the States together very well. For us in Montana to the coast and to our markets abroad. The interstate network is a direct link from the Montana farm and ranch to the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean. It gets our wheat to Russia and our beef to Japan. We would not be viable in the modern economy without it. Our competitors, that is overseas competitors, do not take their infrastructure for granted. While we in America invest less than 2 percent of our gross domestic product in our infrastructure, Ger many Spends percent and Japan spends percent. If we are to get our goods to market and move our people efficiently, we must do better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.