Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement today on the introduction of a bipartisan bill to extend the authorization for federal highway and transit programs through December 4, 2015: “The House and Senate are making good progress in resolving differences between their respective multi-year surface transportation reauthorization proposals. The conference committee needs the time necessary to meet in public, complete negotiations, and produce a final measure that helps improve America’s infrastructure. This clean extension provides time for that process to occur and for the House and Senate to vote on the final legislation, without shutting down transportation programs and projects in the meantime.” The Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015, Part II (H.R. 3996) was introduced today by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Shuster, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI).