Sen. Amy Klobuchar leaning on House to embrace long-term highway funding fix

WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday approved two cash infusions for the nearly broke Highway Trust Fund, but the fate of the longer six-year plan now lies in the more partisan U.S. House, which has already left town for its August recess.

The fund, which is tapped for infrastructure projects all over the country, is now funded through October — which everyone agreed was necessary so states could continue to fund midsummer construction projects.

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