FY24 Transportation Funding Invoice Awaits Consideration
A majority of the Republican caucus introduced the backing of Majority Chief Steve Scalise (R-La.) for the chamber’s high job. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg Information)
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The marketing campaign for a brand new speaker of the U.S. Home of Representatives has sidelined laws designed to fund the Division of Transportation by way of fiscal 2024.
Ground debate on the transportation invoice had been scheduled for earlier this month. The laws is supposed to keep away from funding disruptions for many operations on the division for the following fiscal yr.
Earlier than the Home’s management debate, Congress cleared for President Joe Biden a short-term appropriations funding repair which is maintaining the federal authorities working by way of Nov. 17.
With former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ousted from workplace earlier this month, a majority of the Republican caucus introduced the backing of Majority Chief Steve Scalise (R-La.) for the chamber’s high job. Scalise pointed to the chamber’s legislative document.
“We’ve handed lots of laws to assist households get again on monitor, to handle our border disaster, to get our economic system transferring once more, to handle the spending in Washington that’s driving inflation, excessive power prices. All of these payments that we handed — and that we’re going to proceed to cross — which might be sitting over within the Senate have to be taken up. We’ve handed over 70% of the payments to fund the federal government coping with appropriations and setting the priorities of this nation’s spending. And the Senate has taken up zero,” Scalise stated Oct. 11. “The Senate has to start out doing their work.”
An election to pick out the brand new speaker had not occurred by Transport Subjects’ publishing deadline. Home Republicans have an interim chief in Speaker Professional Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.). Nevertheless, the chamber should have an elected speaker to conduct legislative work.
The Home committee-passed appropriations invoice would dedicate almost $1 billion for the Federal Motor Service Security Administration. It additionally would fund security applications, infrastructure grants and provide chain enchancment tasks. Prime Republicans known as on lawmakers to approve the laws earlier than the mid-November funding deadline.
“We’re targeted on our troops and our veterans in addition to defending our homeland and our pursuits overseas. On the identical time, the payments now we have drafted display that we should cease authorities overreach and the out-of-control spending of the previous couple of years,” Home Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) stated lately. “These are probably the most conservative appropriations payments in historical past.”
The Home $90.2 billion fiscal 2024 transportation measure additionally funds operations on the Division of Housing and City Growth. The invoice would supply $62 billion for the Federal Freeway Administration, $19.5 billion for the Federal Aviation Administration, $14.6 billion for the Federal Transit Administration, $1.4 billion for the Federal Railroad Administration and $1.2 billion for the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration. On trucking coverage, it will prohibit necessities linked to inward-facing cameras on business motor autos.
In the meantime, the Senate model would supply $98.9 billion for the departments of Transportation and Housing and City Growth. It will dedicate $20.2 billion for FAA, $16.8 billion for FTA and $3.4 billion for FRA. The Senate invoice additionally would supply FMCSA with almost $1 billion for fiscal 2024.
After Congress averted a federal shutdown Sept. 30, Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) credited bipartisanship: “The Senate confirmed that bipartisanship was the one manner. And the identical will likely be true once more in 45 days.”
“Partisanship just isn’t a path ahead — it’s a path to chaos,” stated Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “The one method to keep away from a shutdown — the one method to get issues finished — particularly in a divided Congress is to sit down down with the opposite facet and do the arduous work of negotiating [and] speaking to at least one one other.”
The Senate resumes its legislative agenda Oct. 16.
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