Boehner Targets Highway Bill, Ex-Im Bank Renewal as Legislative Priorities
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, listed trade-related legislation as top priorities for 2014 in a March 13 weekly press conference. “We’ve got a highway bill that we have to reauthorize sometime this year. You got the terrorism risk insurance program…
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that has to be reauthorized. You’ve got the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank,” said Boehner. Funding allocation for the Federal Highway Trust Fund, provided in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, expires at the end of Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14). Democratic lawmakers have recently pushed for renewal (see 14012201). Democratic House members also have pressed renewal of the Export-Import Bank, a program that will expire at the end of FY14 (see 14021018). A spokesman declined to comment.