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Omaha Steve

(99,054 posts)
Sat May 23, 2015, 06:27 AM May 2015

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

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0bdb817a406e415286bfcb080b2a49de/another-patch-put-place-highway-and-transit-funding

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Another patch put in place for highway and transit funding (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2015 OP
We still have the Sequester dangling over our heads Demeter May 2015 #1
oy! marym625 May 2015 #2
And to top it all off turbinetree May 2015 #3
ouch! marym625 May 2015 #4
Every other industrialized nation has a long range transportation plan....and it is not two months. Fred Sanders May 2015 #5
So much for the trillion dollar stimulus and all its shovel-ready jobs. n/t Psephos May 2015 #6
 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
1. We still have the Sequester dangling over our heads
Sat May 23, 2015, 06:53 AM
May 2015

Congress refused to take it down.



depiction of sword of Damocles

turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
3. And to top it all off
Sat May 23, 2015, 08:59 AM
May 2015

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




Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
5. Every other industrialized nation has a long range transportation plan....and it is not two months.
Sat May 23, 2015, 09:44 AM
May 2015

The Republican Party, infected by a fascist virus, is indeed the gravest danger to the world above all others.

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