Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that the full, five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill will likely be a lame duck issue — and that he would push to wrap it up before the 119th Congress concludes.
When asked by POLITICO when the House will hold a floor vote on the legislation, Johnson said, “We’re working on that” and pivoted to ding the Senate, saying the upper chamber “hasn’t made any movement towards it at all.”
But he added that the House is trying to work with the Senate and “hopefully it’s an exercise we get done in a lame duck.”
“I think that’s what everybody expects at this point, but we’ll have to see,” Johnson said.
“It…
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