Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act
This bill prohibits the Department of Transportation from awarding additional financial assistance to transit or rail projects if their overall projected costs exceed the original costs by at least $1 billion and if their projected operational and administrative costs to provide the service exceed revenues generated from ridership over the next decade.
To prohibit the provision of Federal assistance to transit and rail 
projects with significant cost overruns and that are projected to lose 
                     money, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR CERTAIN TRANSIT AND 
              RAIL PROJECTS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall not provide any new assistance for a transit or 
rail project if--
            (1) the overall cost projection to complete the project 
        exceeds the original cost projection by at least 
        $1,000,000,000; and
            (2) the operational and administrative costs of the service 
        provided by the project are projected to exceed the revenues 
        generated from ridership annually over the next decade.
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Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act
A bill to prohibit the provision of Federal assistance to transit and rail projects with significant cost overruns and that are projected to lose money, and for other purposes.
Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act
Sen. Ernst, Joni