House Republicans Say 'Not It' To Senate Over Highway Funding

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WASHINGTON -- Congress will fall off a fiscal cliff in four days if it fails to come to a consensus on how to fund the nation's transportation infrastructure.

House Republicans are urging the Senate to take up legislation they passed two weeks ago that would extend the Highway Trust Fund for five months, while the upper chamber continues to push forward with a three-year funding fix.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday warned the Senate not to send over its 1,030-page bill, which would authorize spending levels for six years and pay for three of those years through a variety of offsets.

"We are not taking up the Senate bill," McCarthy said.

"We are set to depart on Thursday," he added. "We did this three weeks ahead of time ... How do you bring up a more than 1,000-page bill that deals with it and send it to the House on the day of departure?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-republicans-play-not-it-with-senate-over-highway-funding_55b675f2e4b0074ba5a5772a

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[msongs]

2. evidently the repub controlled house and the repub controlled senate don't play well together nt

[still_one]

3. I hope they do the same in the general election. I really would like to encourage Donald Trump to

run as a third party candidate if he doesn't get the republican nomination

[left-of-center2012]

5. "... don't play well together"

The GOP told us in 2014 that if we gave them both houses of Congress we'd see how they get things done.

[madokie]

4. We'd be truly fucked

if it wasn't for some of our Democratic Party members in the House and Senate.