House Leaders Announce Plans for Transportation Reauthorization Bill
Representative Mica (R-FL), Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, joined House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) and other House Republicans in announcing plans to move forward with a long-term transportation reauthorization bill to improve the nation’s infrastructure and create jobs.
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Chairman Mica said that in the coming weeks he hopes to mark up a transportation bill to streamline the process for projects by cutting red tape and unnecessary federal paperwork; consolidate duplicative federal transportation programs; provide flexibility, authority and responsibility to states and local governments to move transportation projects forward; and increase the ability to leverage financial resources and encourage more private sector participation in building infrastructure.
(See ITT’s Online Archives 11111511 for announcement of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s approval of a two-year Senate surface transportation reauthorization bill (S. 1813, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, MAP-21.)
National Association of Manufacturers press release on announcement available here