June 19, 2014
SENATE PULLS PLUG ON ROAD FUNDING, TO FORM SUMMER WORK TEAM
After failing to find the votes necessary to generate new road funding revenues the GOP-controlled Senate joined the House in adjourning last week for a scheduled summer break.
The Senate first scrapped Majority Leader Randy Richardville's (R-Monroe) original plan to raise $1.4 billion after five years, then could must only 17 votes for legislation that would index the state's 19-cent gas tax to the rate of inflation the major piece of a scaled-down plan to raise a new combined $247 million.