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On 29 June, the US Senate passed the two-year surface transportation authorisation bill, the aptly named MAP-21 - Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century. The bill now goes to the President who is expected to sign it shortly.

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A news release from Congressman Mica, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, reported some encouraging news yesterday on the authorisation of a Surface Transportation Bill.

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The House and Senate staff have been making offers and counteroffers on several policy provisions recently, but at this point, completing a comprehensive bill by 30 June - when the 9th extension expires - is logistically almost impossible. So, the real question is how long the next extension will be - a few weeks in order to wrap up conference deliberations on a multi-year bill, or longer, possibly as long as six months, as House Speaker John Boehner has suggested.

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Following on from our earlier blog about the Transportation Bill, the US Senate passed a 90-day extension of the surface transportation program by unanimous consent yesterday, 29 March 2012. The bill, which is the ninth short-term extension since the SAFETEA-LU expired in September 2009, is “clean” meaning it does not include any policy or funding changes from current law. It will extend the highway and transit programs through 30 June 2012.

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You may have read in the press that the US Senate, by a vote of 74-22, has passed S 1813, the two year, $109 billion reauthorisation of the federal surface transportation program after voting on 30 amendments, many of which were not particularly material to the bill.

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