Senate, House Conferees to Weigh One-Year Freeze on New Hours Rule

In trying to agree on a transportation spending bill for fiscal 2001, selected Senate and House members must also decide whether to put a clamp on the Department of Transportation’s hours-of-service rulemaking. The final legislation that emerges from the conference process will go to the floors of both chambers for votes, and then on to the White House, where President Clinton will have to decide whether to sign the bill into law.

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Suspense surrounds the Senate’s call for cutting off funding that DOT would need to finalize its proposed hours revisions. The big question: Will the provision remain intact?

The language worked up by Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) “prohibits the use of funds in this act to finalize the rulemaking,” meaning no money in the federal budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 could be used to advance the hours-of-service rulemaking.

“Without the rules, there is no implementation,” Shelby’s press secretary Andrea Andrews told Transport Topics on June 21.

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