McCarthy: House Won't Take Up Senate Highway Bill .The House majority leader says the Senate bill would be dead on arrival in the House, which is still set to leave town Thursday.

The National Journal reports:

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy drew a line in the sand Monday, telling reporters that the House will not take up a Senate-passed highway bill, no matter the outcome of the upper chamber's deliberations.

The House is scheduled to recess on Thursday, and with the Senate advancing its highway bill at a glacial pace, it remains unclear if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be able to pass his long-term Highway Trust Fund extension by then. McCarthy said the Senate instead should pass a short-term bill the House OK'ed weeks ago.

"We're not taking up the Senate bill," McCarthy said.

"We are set to depart on Thursday," he added. "We did this three weeks ahead of time, we've been very clear. … How do you bring up a more than 1,000-page bill that deals with it and send it to the House on the day of departure?"

He said McConnell should bring up the House's bill that extends highway funding for five months, which would then give the chambers time to pass a longer-term bill or go to conference to resolve their disagreements.

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