by Tanya Snyder on March 2, 2011
Just in the nick of time, the House has passed an extension of the current transportation law. The sixth extension of SAFETEA-LU was set to expire this Friday.
The extension is not expected to face any problems in the Senate.
Although the House has been cutting every expenditure it can get its hands on, it can’t get its hands on the bulk of the surface transportation program, since it’s funded out of the dedicated Highway Trust Fund (in the process of being renamed the Transportation Trust Fund). This extension passed the House 421-4.
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