http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091118-712072.html

U.S. funding levels for highway and mass-transit construction could drop by as much as 30% from existing levels in coming months without congressional action to fix an accounting quirk, a Transportation Department official said Wednesday.  "When is a little unclear," Roy Kienitz, undersecretary of policy for the Transportation Department, told members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "We're trying to figure that out."