With the current transportation bill expiring in a year, and states potentially losing billions in federal funding if Congress doesn’t pass new legislation, “They do manage to patch things up,” Baker said. “Neither person wants a dysfunctional committee.” Snowe said voters didn’t want a dysfunctional Congress, either. She recalled that through other rough periods, including a 21-day government shutdown in 1995-96, the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1998 and the divisive Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election, the Senate could still enact laws. Whatever the differences, Snowe said, most people want to get things done. “We don’t have to settle for this,” she said. “This is not irreparable.”
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