The House voted Wednesday to approve an $8 billion bill to extend federal transportation funding until December.
The funding extension was approved in a 312-119 vote.
The legislation now goes to the Senate, which is considering a funding bill that could also include an extension of the Export-Import Bank.
That would introduce a new complication to the fight over highway funding, since conservatives in the House want to prevent Ex-Im from moving forward.
Republican leaders said the stopgap measure will buy time to negotiate a long-term highway bill.
"We don't like patches more than anybody else does," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said. "But this patch is necessary to make sure that [construction] projects don't stop."
Democrats complained bitterly about the temporarily extension, which is the 34th highway funding patch that has been approved by Congress since 2005.
"If kicking the can down the road was an Olympic sport, what we would win here in the United States Congress, we would win gold, we would win bronze, we’d win silver, and we’d win aluminum,” said Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.).
Lawmakers face a July 31 deadline to extend highway funding.
