Another patch put in place for highway and transit funding
Source: AP
By JOAN LOWY
WASHINGTON (AP) Congress has sent President Barack Obama a bill to keep highway and transit aid flowing to states for another two months and prevent shutdown of summer construction projects.
The Senate approved the bill by voice vote early Saturday; the measure passed the House earlier in the week. Authority to spend money from the federal Highway Trust Fund, which finances most aid to states, was due to expire May 31.
It's the 33rd time in more than six years that Congress has resorted to a temporary patch to keep transportation programs going, 12 bills specific to highway and transit programs and 21 other more general measures designed to keep the Transportation Department and other government agencies open. The repeated fixes are a reflection of lawmakers' continuing lack of consensus on how to solve the nation's infrastructure financing woes.
While Obama is expected to sign the measure, White House spokesman Josh Earnest urged lawmakers to use the two months to negotiate a long-term bill
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)Congress refused to take it down.
depiction of sword of Damocles
marym625
(17,997 posts)These people are just useless. At least they passed something
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)they are going on vacation AGAIN-------244 days last year, and they are only scheduled this year for 139 days of "working" to screw everyone, just gotta love a right wing do nothing republican---------not
marym625
(17,997 posts)Don't hurt yourself over those asswipes! But I think I will join you
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)The Republican Party, infected by a fascist virus, is indeed the gravest danger to the world above all others.