The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced its sweeping five-year transportation reauthorization bill early Friday morning after adding on a White House-backed rail safety provision — a twist that could complicate the bill’s support on the floor.
The vote to approve the measure was 62-2, overwhelmingly giving panel Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., and ranking member Rick Larsen, D-Wash., the bipartisan package they had intended. The committee considered roughly 160 amendments during a markup that lasted more than 15 hours. Reps. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., voted against the bill.
