Bipartisan Highway Optimism Is High Despite Divergent Bills

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House lawmakers are vowing to pass a bipartisan highway bill, as Republicans lay out their priorities this week and the top transportation Democrat said “failure is not an option.”Lawmakers face a Sept. 30 deadline to renew surface transportation programs, initially authorized under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or FAST Act (Public Law 114-94).“I’m doing everything I can to encourage bipartisan buy-in,” House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), said at an American Public Transportation Associationconference Tuesday. “But we’ll just see how we get this done. We’re going to get it done one way or another.”