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Inhofe to introduce highway bill in committee Wednesday

The Norman Transcript

By Reese Gorman May 26, 2021


With the Senate still in deep negotiations about an infrastructure plan, Oklahoma’s senior senator has put together a plan to invest in rural roads and highways that he hopes will be included in the president’s final infrastructure package.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., will share the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021 with the Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday.

As President Joe Biden pushes heavily for a bipartisan infrastructure package, Inhofe, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-VA., and Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., have put together a bipartisan portion of the plan that focuses predominantly on highways, bridges and rural roads.

Among other things, the highway bill would put $2 billion into a transportation grant program specifically for rural roads, an investment that would help states like Oklahoma, said Luke Holland, Inhofe’s chief of staff.


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