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Conference committee agrees to add language, schedule two weeks of testimony on transportation bill; edits railroad-lease wording
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Members of the conference committee on the transportation bill agreed to add language to the bill, schedule two weeks of testimony, and approved a drafting change to how state railroad lease revenues are described in the bill text.
Members of the conference committee on the transportation bill agreed Tuesday to add new language to the measure and to schedule two weeks of additional testimony, and they approved an edit to how the bill describes state railroad lease revenues.
The agreement came during informal conference work where committee members reviewed a side-by-side of changes and discussed placement of the topic in the miscellaneous motor-vehicles section. "We can confidently say with full assurance that we can ... add the language or bring that language to our miscellaneous motor vehicles and take the testimony that we need over the next 2 weeks," one committee member said, describing a commitment to collect further testimony before…
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