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House subcommittee opens surface-transportation reauthorization with warnings on funding, trust fund solvency and a paused administration order
Summary
Subcommittee members and witnesses opened the 119th Congress’ reauthorization process by reviewing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, warning that inflation, Highway Trust Fund shortfalls and a White House pause on certain program disbursements risk project delivery and planning.
Chairman Rausser opened the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit hearing on Jan. 23, 2025, by setting reauthorization of the nation’s surface-transportation programs as the subcommittee’s priority and urging a bipartisan, member-driven bill to follow the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also called the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).
The hearing featured opening statements from Ranking Member Eleanor Holmes Norton and several members who emphasized different priorities: safety, resiliency and maintaining investment in formula highway programs. Witnesses from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the American Trucking Associations (ATA), Vulcan Materials Company and the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, described how federal funding from…
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