Schedule for Highway Bill Reauthorization
Congress adjourned the first session of the 105th
Congress without acting to reauthorize federal highway legislation, the
Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act. Rather, a six-month
extension of current law was passed, and Congress is expected to take up
the highway bill following the start of the second session in January.
 Illinois Senator Carol Moseley-Braun |
The Senate's transportation bill, S. 1173, the Intermodal Transportation Act of 1997, includes an extension of the ethanol tax incentive through 2007. The extension provision was sponsored by Senators Chuck Grassley and Carol Moseley-Braun, and is identical to that which passed as part of the balanced budget agreement this past summer. |  Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley |
The House of Representatives will move forward
with legislation advanced by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Chairman Bud Shuster, entitled the Building Efficient Surface Transportation
and Equity Act. As drafted, the House bill does not include an extension
of the ethanol tax incentive.
