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SD Senator Mike Rounds; Progress on Transportation Bill

SD Senator Mike Rounds; Progress on Transportation Bill

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The US House 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.

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………

The government’s authority to spend money from the Highway Trust Fund expires in about two weeks.

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