House, Senate Pass One-Month Transport Bill Extension
Congress has approved legislation to keep federal highway and transit programs going for another month, as negotiations continue to move slowly on a long-term successor to the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
TEA-21 expired Sept. 30 and since then a series of short extensions has been necessary to avert a virtual shutdown of federal highway and transit agencies. The current short-term extension expires June 30. The latest extension, the fourth in the series, cleared the House and Senate on June 23. It carries the transport programs through July 31.