The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is scheduled to markup a bipartisan bill to spend up to $325 billion on transportation projects over the next six years on Thursday, as Congress scrambles to prevent an interruption in the nation's infrastructure spending at the end of the month.
The measure would spend $261 billion on highways, $55 billion on transit and approximately $9 billion on safety programs, but only if Congress can come up with a way to pay for the final three years. The bill is known as the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015.
Supporters of the measure touted the decision to mark the bill up before House appropriators come up with a funding mechanism as way to speed up the process of passing a long-term highway bill for the first time in 10 years by getting the policy provisions in place.
