The bill calls for a comprehensive review of CSA by researchers, due within 18 months, to study both how CSA’s percentile scores are produced and how effective they are at gauging carriers’ crash risk.

“No, no”, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told the Washington Examiner when asked whether the House would consider the Senate legislation.

The deal was forged by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. The legislation before the Senate would authorize spending levels for the highway fund for six years, but only shores up money for three of those years.

Just last week, the U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx warned Georgia transportation officials that the federal government won’t be able to meet its financial obligations to states after August. 1.

In the immediate future, that leaves lots of sunlight between the House and Senate bills, and not much time to correct them, which means a five-month extension may be the best Congress can produce before funding expires on July 31.

The highway bill also would prohibit rental cars with unrepaired recalls from being rented to consumers and would deposit fines collected by NHTSA to the Highway Trust Fund that pays for road projects rather than sending the penalties to the U.S. Treasury. Lawmakers also must hash out other policy differences tied up in the highway bill.

Mr. McConnell spent all morning completing the details with Ms. Boxer, an ardent advocate for a long-term highway bill and the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee.

He also said supporters of the U.S. Export-Import Bank would be permitted to offer a provision in the highway legislation to reauthorize that institution.

“Wow. If that’s what he said, Mitch McConnell really doesn’t get it”, Clinton posted on the social network site Monday afternoon. The cost gets even more expensive when the fix and replacement of aging bridges, highways and transit systems is factored in. “I know basically what’s in it, but I haven’t seen it in writing”. It is predicted to dominate Senate deliberations into subsequent week as Republicans and Democrats work towards a July 31 deadline to maintain the nationwide Highway Trust Fund from operating out of cash. “We need to seize the opportunity”, Capito said. And once again, the House and the Senate are at odds-and before an August recess.

“With Section 1021 of the Act, we’ve managed to achieve a significant change in the Interstate Highway Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program”, the group said in a post on its website.

But Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) disagreed, saying, “I don’t think there’s a chance in the world they’re going to take up this bill”.

Congress has been struggling to pass a long-term transportation bill for almost a decade, but has been unable to come up with the money to pay for it. The gas tax hasn’t been increased in more than two decades, and the money it brings in hasn’t kept pace with inflation.