The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced its reconciliation provisions Wednesday after nixing a $20 universal vehicle registration fee and boosting a fee on electric vehicles to $250, easing party concerns about the controversial charges.
That decision to remove the fee, part of the panel’s initial plan to greatly boost highway and infrastructure funding over 10 years, also changed the committee’s math for funding air traffic control modernization in the text. The provisions approved Wednesday would provide $12.5 billion for the modernization, down from $15 billion in the text released Tuesday.
Even with the changes, the committee’s portion of the reconciliation bill is expected to produce far more than the panel’s deficit-reduction goal of $10 billion over 10 years.
