A multiyear highway and transit bill—the construction industry’s longtime top legislative priority— is advancing on Capitol Hill, with the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s approval of a six-year, estimated $325-billion measure. Industry officials’ eyes now are focused on the Ways and Means Committee, which is tasked with adding enough funding to that bill to keep the Highway Trust Fund out of the red for at least three years.
The House on Oct. 27 passed a three-week stopgap to avert an Oct. 29 cutoff of surfacetransportation programs. A Senate vote is the next step.