Tag: Highway Trust Fund

ATA Calls on Senate for Shorter Highway Trust Fund Patch

ATA Calls on Senate for Shorter Highway Trust Fund Patch

| July 24, 2014

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has called on the Senate to “adopt a shorter term patch for the Highway Trust Fund in order to pass a long-term, well-funded highway bill sooner, rather than later.” “As the Senate takes up legislation this week to address the looming shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund by passing a […]

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House approves Highway Trust Fund patch

House approves Highway Trust Fund patch

| July 16, 2014

Courtesy of CBS News: With an August deadline looming, the House voted Tuesday to temporarily patch over a multibillion-dollar pothole in federal highway and transit programs while ducking the issue of how to put them on a sound financial footing for the long term. The action cobbles together $10.8 billion by using pension tax changes, […]

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