Senators Hash Out Transportation Spending Bill Outline
A bipartisan group of senators have finally agreed to a long-term transportation spending bill.
The bill would spend about $56 billion a year on highway and transit construction, roughly the same amount per year, adjusted for inflation, as the last long-term transportation bill that expired in 2009. A lot of details are still up in the air though.
KGW TV out of Portland tells us what has and hasn't been agreed upon.
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3 comments:
Good that you're bringing attention to this. But the title could be misinterpreted. Four Senators have agreed on principles (not actual language) for a new bill, which is great news. It remains to be seen what can pass out of committee, much less the entire Senate. And then there's the House, which will produce a very-different looking bill. We are, unfortunately, a long way from getting a final bill to replace SAFETEA-LU.
Yeah, I suppose you have a point there @Larry Ehl. I actually was trying to think of a better title but got distracted (as always) and didn't get back around to coming up with something better. I'll go back to the drawing board.
I know how that goes...I've rewritten many titles after publishing!
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