House, Senate reach multi-year highway bill agreement

Allison Kral Published Dec 1, 2015

House and Senate lawmakers reached an agreement on a highway bill that would extend federal transportation funding for five years, according to The Hill.

The legislation, called the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, calls for spending about $205 billion on highways and $48 billion on transit projects over the next five years.

This development comes ahead of a Dec. 4 deadline Congress faces to avoid a lapse in highway funding.

According to The Hill, the bill was agreed upon hastily. The Department of Transportation has warned it will stop making payments to state and local governments by the deadline if Congress does not agree on at least another temporary funding extension.

If passed, the bill would be the first transportation funding legislation spanning more than two years since 2005.

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Allison Kral is the former senior digital media manager for North Coast Media (NCM). She completed her undergraduate degree at Ohio University where she received a Bachelor of Science in magazine journalism from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. She works across a number of digital platforms, which include creating e-newsletters, writing articles and posting across social media sites. She also creates content for NCM's Portable Plants magazine, GPS World magazine and Geospatial Solutions. Her understanding of the ever-changing digital media world allows her to quickly grasp what a target audience desires and create content that is appealing and relevant for any client across any platform.