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After years of halting and unpredictable federal spending on the nation's highways, bridges, waterways, mass transit and power grids, Sandbrook thinks the president-elect is just the person to throw open the spigot of infrastructure spending and rev up the economy. Sandbrook's company has laid concrete in major construction projects from New York City to the San Francisco Bay area and is salivating over the prospects of a major infusion of new construction funds.

"I believe it's a huge stimulus," he said in a telephone interview Friday from his headquarters near Dallas. "I've been lobbying Congress since 1992 on increasing infrastructure spending," yet Congress, for the most part, has taken a "Band-Aid" approach to funding.

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