House To Take Up Highway Bill As Deadline Looms

By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Tue, 07/15/2014 - 12:15am

The bill by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp cobbles together $10.8 billion in pension tax changes, customs fees and money from a fund to repair leaking underground fuel storage tanks to keep the federal Highway Trust Fund solvent through May 2015.

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