Posted on 07/23/2015 9:03:47 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said a vote to begin debate on a massive highway bill he is pitching is "an important first step" toward solving a transportation funding shortfall that has bedeviled Congress for a decade.
"There are lot of tired cliches about not giving up after an initial set back," McConnell said, referencing a failed test vote on Tuesday that placed the Senate's ability to pass a long-term highway bill in doubt.
"I won't subject our colleagues to any of those this morning, but I will say that last night's vote represents an important first step toward passing a multi-year, bipartisan highway bill. It's the first step on much longer road, but in my view it's a worthwhile one.
GOP leaders are scrambling to meet a July 31 deadline for new highway funding.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Thanks again, Kentucky.
Maybe if so much highway funding was not used to add bike lanes and other underfunded mass transit schema, we could use the collected gas taxes to fix the roads instead.
Congress Eyes Sales From Nation’s Oil Stockpile for Highway Funding
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3315664/posts
According to a 2013 analysis by the Heritage Foundation, at least 20% of gas-tax revenues in recent years went toward other programs, from light rail to bike lanes to landscaping projects. Some funds even went toward establishing transportation museums.
But I thought the 2009 trillion dollar ‘stimulus’ went to fixing roads and bridges!!! /s
Could have sworn the some 800 billion for “shovel ready” jobs were for highways and bridges, amongst other infrastructure. Of course, now they want more. BTW, what was that wholly owned Democrat legislation called?
He and Boehner need to get a room. A jail cell would be nice.
Didn’t read far enough. Yes, The Stimulus Act or something similar to pull the US out of recession, which it didn’t.
Exactly.
What most people fail to realize is that money has been built in to every cr since. It wasn’t just a one time thing.
Thank you for reminding me about the Continuing Resolutions and where a lot of that money was supposed to go.
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