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Continuing resolution cuts some funding for transportation safety projects and Army Corps of Engineers civil works.

The continuing resolution to fund the government through Sept. 30 next goes to the Senate, where it will need bipartisan support to avoid a shutdown and an interruption of government funding and services.

IIJA-funded programs that use advanced appropriations and are protected from cutbacks, but other programs may be affected.

Veteran Missouri lawmaker Sam Graves takes the transportation and Infrastructure panel gavel

Thanks to a burst of late June activity by the House Appropriations Committee, the first batch of fiscal year 2023 spending bills was nearing a House floor vote by the week of July 18.

Contractors oppose changes affecting collective bargaining and tariffs.

The vote is the final congressional approval for the bill, which now goes to President Biden for signature.

Amount in Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill for water service line replacement is woefully short to address the problem, say several industry officials familiar with drinking water issues.