now the reality, but i had a lebeau, here it is coming 4,366 projects have been approved from all states three of the territories and the district of colombia representing 14 .4 billion dollars, a 54% of the highway funds in the recovery act, 4,098 projects as of last week as the date of reporting to us have been put out to bid. 2,294 projects have signed contracts totaling they value of 6.$5 billion. work is underway on 1,243 of the projects and 21,000 on-site jobs. to a . .. .