Congressional lawmakers are proposing measures that include a suspension of the federal gas tax to stave off soaring prices at the pump, and are considering other remedies to ease inflationary price increases as Congress averted a federal government shutdown by passing a short-term spending measure.
On Feb. 17, the Senate approved House-passed legislation 65-27 that would ensure funding for federal agencies through March 11. The government had been operating on funding authority that was set to expire on Feb. 18.
