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An aide to Senator Jeff Bingaman called TOLLROADSnews this morning. She hotly denies that S884 and S885 were written in collaboration with anti-privatization lobbyists at ATA and OOIDA, as we reported. She also denied the press release that first appeared April 28 or April 29 was backdated to April 24.

Allen & Overy, a major international law firm say in a commentary that US Senate bills 884 and 885 would "compound the capital starvation of the US transportation network" and could "end the US market for tollroad P3s" (public private partnerships, also known as longterm leases, or concessions). They say S884 titled the "Transportation Equity for All Americans Act" (S.