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Today in Interstate History

February 6, 1956

Representative Hale Boggs introduced a bill with a financing mechanism for construction of the Interstate Highway System. The Louisiana congressman put forth H.R. 9075 to pay for the provisions of another House bill, one already released by his fellow Democrat George H. Fallon, authorizing funds for the highway program. H.R. 9075 specifically proposed financing the program through the use of revenue from highway users' taxes. Both bills would be merged into H.R. 10660, which was ultimately signed into law as the Federal-Highway Act of 1956 (see January 26).