In a landslide vote, the House of Representatives cleared a six-year highway bill Thursday morning, setting up a conference with the Senate over their different pieces of legislation.

 

More than 80 percent of House members voted in favor of the bill, which also addresses the Export-Import Bank, in a 363-64 decision. The bill is the first long-term transportation bill to pass the House in a decade, but the price tag of over $300 billion and questions about its funding still loom large. It will now go to a conference committee with the Senate, which passed is own six-year bill in July. 

 

In a press conference after passage of the bill, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the bill “cuts waste, prioritizes good infrastructure, will help create good-paying jobs.” Ryan achieved passage of the bill in his first full week as speaker, accomplishing something no speaker before him has done since 2005.

 

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