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A bipartisan group of House members introduced a six-year highway funding bill Wednesday that would guarantee $283.9 billion through 2009.

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President Bush’s fiscal year 2006 budget request calls for increases in border security and new initiatives to pre-screen cargo.

Two years after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed into a law holding top company officials liable for certifying the accuracy of financial statements, some trucking executives said that a new provision hitting publicly traded fleets for the first time this tax season is costing them millions of dollars to comply.

The South Dakota House approved a bill that would revise the licensing process for truckers and ensure the state complies with federal transportation safety guidelines, officials said.

WASHINGTON - The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will seek to have its current hours of serve rules written into law and avoid future court disputes over driver-health issues by adding amendments to the new highway bill Congress will consider this year.

Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark.) introduced legislation Tuesday he said was aimed at improving hours-of-service regulations by allowing truck drivers to take meal or rest breaks off the clock..

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Leaders in both the House and Senate said they were ready to begin work on a new multiyear highway funding bill that would closely resemble the measure Congress was unable to approve last year. That measure failed largely because lawmakers wanted to spend more money than President Bush would approve.