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Senate to Accept 3-Month Highway Bill

By JM Rieger and Niels Lesniewski and Kellie Mejdrich

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The Senate will accept a House bill to provide a three-month extension of highway programs, as well as preventing a veterans funding shortfall. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday the Senate will take up the highway extension from the House that will run to Oct. 29. He also said the House will pass a long-term bill that will ultimately go to conference with the Senate’s long-term bill. “When they [pass a bill] in September, we’ll follow regular order, go to conference, we’ll try to work out the differences and we’ll try to agree how to pay for it,” McConnell said. “That’s the way it normally works around here.” Read more.

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