WASHINGTON — The transportation community should be ready to “expect a very short-term extension” to keep highway programs funded after funding authority expires at the end of May, American Trucking Associations Senior Vice President Chris Spear told reporters April 23.

WASHINGTON — With five agencies at the Department of Transportation run by acting administrators, Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) asked Secretary Anthony Foxx on April 22 why the Obama administration had yet to announce nominees to fill those posts full time.

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx reassured senators on April 22 that his department’s trucking regulatory agency is aiming to complete a study on a recently suspended hours-of-service rule by its mid-December deadline.

WASHINGTON — If she were leading the Senate’s transportation panel, Sen. Barbara  Boxer said she already would have taken up a multiyear highway bill that the panel’s Republican chairman said would soon be considered.

WASHINGTON — The role played by private investors and firms in transportation should be expanded to ensure there is adequate funding for transit and infrastructure projects around the country, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said at an April 21 hearing.

WASHINGTON — Sen. James Inhofe, transportation policy committee chairman, said he’s “nearly done crafting a bill” that would authorize highway programs for five or six years.

WASHINGTON — A plan to ensure federal dollars for highway programs continue to reach states after a May 31 deadline could be unveiled “in the coming days,” Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), the top transportation policy writer in the House, told reporters April 14.