For Immediate Release
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Daisy Singh, 202-857-1200, daisysingh@highways.org
WASHINGTON, DC (November 30, 2011) – Today the American Highway Users Alliance (Highway Users) expressed disappointment with the delay of the release of the House highway authorization bill until early next year.
House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica announced today that the federal highway bill would be postponed until after the holidays because the end-of-year legislative schedule is too busy to fit it in.
Highway Users President & CEO Greg Cohen remarked, “We are deeply disappointed with the delay of the House bill. The state of disrepair of American infrastructure impedes economic progress and Congress has a chance to improve conditions. Lawmakers should focus on getting the nation’s economic engine moving again by passing a new highway bill instead of taking another recess for the holidays.”
The delay of the bill backtracks on a commitment from House leaders earlier this month to deliver a federal highway bill by the end of the year. We share Chairman Mica’s frustrations and pledge to work with him to get the process moving again as quickly as possible.
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The American Highway Users Alliance represents motorists, RV enthusiasts, truckers, bus companies, motorcyclists, and a broad cross-section of businesses that depend on safe and efficient highways to transport their families, customers, employees, and products. Highway Users members pay the taxes that finance the federal highway program and advocate public policies that dedicate those taxes to improved highway safety and mobility.
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