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By BURGESS EVERETT and ADAM SNIDER
1/16/12 10:15 PM EST Updated: 1/17/12 10:48 AM EST
The House returns Tuesday to a mountain of unresolved transportation issues with little room for error and little time to get up to speed.
There will be immediate urgency for both chambers (the Senate reconvenes Jan. 23) to address the Federal Aviation Administration, as its funding expires Jan. 31. That’s just the beginning — transit riders are clamoring for an expired tax provision to be renewed and the trucking industry is in a frenzy over new hours-of-service rules. Just around the corner: Surface transportation law runs out March 31.
Partisan bickering on extending a 2 percent payroll tax cut past Feb. 29 could easily suck up the oxygen in Congress and lead to further stopgap extensions on FAA and highway funding — an unpalatable scenario for leaders after 30 extensions over more than 2,400 days for the two laws... FULL ARTICLE
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Tue, January 17, 2012
by John Cox