allegheny county airport authority representing airports council international north america and john keating president and chief operating officer oldcastle materials group fees representing american road and transportation builders association. we will begin with mr. brown. >> thank you madam chairman as a special note we have included a few figures that were correctly added and not have been fixed and we ask we have been allowed to submit the revised testimony is just a couple of technical changes. think you'll. >> my name is larry butch brown i am the director of the mississippi department of transportation serving vice president of the american association of state highway and transportation officials and m the incoming president this fall. i want to thank you for your efforts in securing transportation funding as part of the legislation. today want to emphasize three major points. allstate's of obligated 50 percent are more of the funds will before the june 30 deadline. projects are under construction and people are going back to work and states are directing funds were ready to go proj

. >> thank you, representative edwards in committee, my name is john keating and the president's oldcastle materials east, today i am testifying on both oldcastle american road and transportation builders association. burst out like to express our appreciation to this committee's leadership in ensuring the american recovery and reinvestment act included a major transportation infrastructure components. thank you. and chief executive officer, doug black, and are vice president of economics told this committee last october that increased transportation infrastructure investment from economic stimulus package would be put to work quickly and produce meaningful economic benefits. today is my pleasure to report on how these commitments are being fulfilled. says of obligated 14.7 billion other recovery act, highway funds as of june 16. this amount is about five and a half billion more than required to be obligated by the june 30th deadline. we expect outlays to continue to increase as a move into the summer and fall construction seasons. furthermore, the value of new contract awards for highway