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Dec 20, 2009

RULES * USA - Senate Extends Highway Bill Two Months

Resolution keeps SAFETEA-LU in place as Senate debates jobs, infrastructure measures

Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by R.G. Edmonson -Dec 19, 2009: -- The Senate gave existing highway funding programs a two-month reprieve today when it approved a Defense Department appropriations bill 88-12... Included in the defense bill is a continuing resolution that allows the government to disburse money under the terms of the 2005 surface transportation act known as SAFETEA-LU. The Senate extended the law until Feb. 28, 2010... The extension gives the Senate time to consider a jobs bill that also cleared the House on Dec. 16. The bill directs $75 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, with two-thirds of the total going to Department of Transportation infrastructure programs...

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