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Feb242012

Boehner may scale back highway bill amid Republican opposition

DateFriday, February 24, 2012 at 10:24AM

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February 24, 2012

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) may significantly scale back his signature transportation bill in the face of opposition from conservative and centrist members of his own party.

A Boehner spokesman, Michael Steel, said Thursday that GOP leaders were mulling “a revamped approach” that would shorten the length of the highway reauthorization bill from five years and scrap a proposal to remove transit funding from the highway trust fund…

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