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House committee plans faster pace to come up with roads plan

LANSING, MI (MPRN)--   The Republican chair of the state House Transportation Committee says he plans an aggressive schedule of hearings on road repairs.

The committee plans to hold two hearings a week and have its recommendations ready before the end of the summer.

State Representative Jack O’Malley says his committee will be looking for new ideas on how to fix and maintain roads, but not how to pay for it.

“We’re not appropriations. We are policy. And so, when the budgets are finally decided, we’re the ones who are going to be saying, OK, what makes sense,” he says.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has called for phasing in fuel tax increases totaling an additional 45 cents per gallon.

Republicans say they plan to propose their own plan.