SENATE HOPEFUL ASSAILS AID BILL.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Capitol bureau

New York would get $3.8 billion more in transportation funding under a bill passed in February by the U.S. Senate, according to a bipartisan congressional committee, but that's not enough in Republican state Assemblyman Howard Mills' opinion.

Mills, challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, on Tuesday criticized the Brooklyn Democrat for approving the bill because it will give New York a smaller share of overall transportation funding compared with what the state received in 1998.

The Senate bill would give New York $17.3 billion between 2004 and 2009, or 4.4 percent of the $318 billion measure. Under …