The US Hous
e voted to approve a six year, three hundred forty billion dollar transportation funding bill. It would end a series of over thirty short term extensions on funding. The Senate has passed its own version, so a conference committee will have to iron out the differences. South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says the House has some different funding proposals……
Rounds says at least there is a solid framework to build a long term funding bill…
The federal gas tax has not been increased in over twenty years. Rounds says there is a reason that wasn’t part of the discussion…
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The government’s authority to spend money from the Highway Trust Fund expires in about two weeks.