Will House Crash On Highway Bill?

Will the do-nothing Congress do nothing as funding for our nation’s highways expires?

The Department of Transportation’s Highway Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money as early as August without congressional action. . .

The Senate has begun working on a bill that would extend the authorization to collect the gas tax and provide $265 billion for road and transit projects over the next six years. The House has not yet unveiled a bill, however.

“Nothing [is] happening in the House when it comes to the highway bill,” former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said this week. “Nothing introduced, nothing debated, no discussion and we’re in a mess.”

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.