Senate Moves To Patch Transportation Funding

Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post: Politics
Tue, 07/29/2014 - 7:25pm

The U.S. Senate Tuesday gutted a House bill to temporarily extend transportation funding, plopped in its own revenue-raising plan and added a political twist to the traditionally bipartisan issue. Fearful they may lose the Senate in November, Democrats want to force Congress to come up with a long-term method to pay for transportation funding in the lame duck session.

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