MI: Senate adjourns without consensus on a fix for roads

Detroit Free Press: LANSING — Despite eight hours of behind-the-scenes negotiations, the state Senate failed to muster enough votes Tuesday to pass a plan to raise gas taxes and registration fees and shift $600 million in the state's general fund to fix the state's crumbling roads and bridges.

A proposed 40% hike in vehicle registration fees was the road block to the plan: Republicans wouldn't support the steep hike and Democrats were generally opposed to the bill, overall.

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