Differences between the US House and Senate are slowing the progress of any new highway funding bill. One proposal would extend the funding to next May, in the hopes of finding some type of long term compromise by then.

South Dakota republican Senate candidate Mike Rounds says he thinks a big part of the problem is the lack of trust between Congress and the Obama Administration…

 

Rounds says the state depends on almost three hundred million dollars a year in federal funding…

 

Rounds says when he was Governor, the state used much of the federal stimulus dollars for highway projects…

 

Rounds faces democrat Rick Weiland, along with independents Gordon Howie and Larry Pressler in the run for the Senate seat.