With highway and transit authorizations due to expire on June 30 and no Senate-House agreement yet on a new, longer-term measure, leaders of both chambers have directed their key negotiators to intensify their work to produce a bill.
At a June 19 meeting at the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) "to redouble our efforts," Mica said.