 and award a bill, we must begin to contemplate the next surface transportation bill. We're more than halfway through the current authorization, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which authorized and appropriated nearly $661 billion for the Department of Transportation. And I remain concerned about the slow pace at which the department is distributing IIJ funds, despite having received more than $364 billion since IIJ's enactment. DOT has obligated a little more than half