The freshman congressman tells a highway booster group that Congress needs to pass a multiyear funding bill soon.
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BY MICHAEL MCNUTT mmcnutt@opubco.com
Published: September 2, 2011
Congress this month likely will pass a short-term extension of the federal highway bill, U.S. Rep. James Lankford predicted to a group of road- and bridge-building boosters Thursday.
It would be the eighth extension of the surface transportation bill, Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, said to members of TRUST, Transportation Revenues Used Strictly for Transportation coalition, during a breakfast meeting at the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame museum.
Lankford, a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said a short-term extension would give Congress time to work on a multiyear bill.
The House of Representatives and Senate still have to get their versions passed out of committees.
“Our focus is we need to reauthorize it and soon,” Lankford said... FULL ARTICLE
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Fri, September 2, 2011
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