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WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee on May 13 voted 30-21 to send a fiscal 2016 transportation funding bill to the House floor after defeating a Democratic attempt to remove a provision that would add new requirements to a study on an hours of service rule for truckers.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Virginia celebrated 20 years of public-private partnerships for infrastructure, recommended them to other states and is looking for a P3 arrangement to improve Interstate 66, which runs from Washington, D.C., to the west.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Virginia’s governor said his state will soon have to begin shutting down transportation improvement projects if Congress does not fund and reauthorize the federal Highway Trust Fund before the end of this month.

With less than two weeks before funding authority for transportation projects expires, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) on May 12 introduced legislation that would establish an infrastructure bank.

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Congress will soon unveil a highway funding patch that ensures states continue to receive federal funding assistance after transportation funding authority expires at the end of the month.

The Department of Transportation’s Inspector General is conducting an audit into concerns about the “timeliness and effectiveness” of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s reviews of carriers that pose a greater risk.

WASHINGTON — Policymakers and Wall Street veterans made pleas May 11 for greater investment in the nation’s infrastructure but acknowledged the stumbling block is still the same — how to pay for it.

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said that while lawmakers focus on crafting a long-term transportation plan, his department is 20 days away from running out of its ability to use the “little bit of money we do have” to assist states with infrastructure.

President Obama on May 8 nominated Greg Nadeau to be administrator of the Federal Highway Administration.

WASHINGTON — The biggest challenges facing infrastructure public-private partnership proposals are in persuading public officials and taxpayers to accept some level of financial and possibly environmental risk, and in convincing public employees they won’t lose their jobs, a panel of P3 supporters said at a May 11 “Infrastructure Week” event.