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The chairman of the House Transportation Committee said he is “fed up” with the Transportation Security Administration’s failure to explain delays in deploying biometric card readers for Transportation Worker Identification Credential cards at U.S. ports and other secure facilities.

President Obama was scheduled to sign into law late last week a two-year, $105 billion transportation funding bill that will allow more tolling of interstate highways and create a national freight highway network.

An index of the U.S. economy’s service sector declined in June to the slowest pace in almost a year and a half, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it ordered Lebanon, Tenn.-based trucking company Three Angels Farms shut down for safety violations.

U.S. manufacturing activity contracted for the first time since July 2009, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday.

Consumer confidence dropped in June to the lowest level this year, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

U.S. Consumer spending was unchanged in May, the weakest reading since November, the Commerce Department said Friday.

A year after U.S. officials agreed to allow Mexican trucks into the country, only four Mexican carriers are participating, far below the number the United States has said would be needed to judge the safety of Mexican trucks.

The House on Friday passed a transportation spending measure that would block rules requiring electronic onboard recorders on trucks.