Short-Term Highway Fund Boost Gets Both Parties’ Support
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Lawmakers in Congress are uniting behind a plan to replenish the U.S. fund for road and mass-transit projects through May 2015 as they delay a debate over raising taxes for long-term infrastructure financing.
Separate bills approved by the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees yesterday would provide almost $11 billion to avoid a shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund next month that would slow construction.