Eye On Boise: House GOP Kills Garvee Bill to Hurt D’s

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House GOP leaders pulled one of the six highway projects – the Orchard to Isaacs Canyon project on I-84 – out of the program at one point in negotiations on the bill because it benefits a district represented by Democrats, senators said in their debate against SB 1245, the GARVEE bonding bill that just was killed in the Senate on a 23-12 vote. “There was one of those six projects that was removed altogether,” Senate Finance Chairman Dean Cameron, R-Rupert, told the Senate. “Why? Because the senator and the representatives from that district were from the wrong political party.” He added, “It’s time for us to step back.”