Sentences with phrase «withheld highway funds»
The proposed federal law would use the threat of withheld highway funds to pressure those states that haven't passed such laws to think again.
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The federal government, for public safety reasons, will withhold some federal highway funds from states that set their drinking age younger than 21 but Congress has never tried to pass a law setting the drinking age nationally at 21.
For instance, Congress required states to reduce highway speed limits to 55 and enforce the lower limits or risk having funding withheld.
Instead, they withheld federal highway funds and forced him to take the signs down.