Updated: House passed transportation budget

The House is debating the supplemental transportation budget. Find it here.

Rep. Judy Clibborn: “We have at least 3,000 new jobs in the supplemental budget. Good, family wage jobs,” she said. She said the budget includes $600 million for rail. “This is a good news budget in a bad economy and I can’t commend it to you more.”

Rep. Dan Roach: “I will be voting yes today. I think one of the good things again is that the bidding climate is very good for us,” he said. “I encourage people go to through line by line … at the end of the day, I think it’s an alright budget.”

Rep. Christine Rolfes: “We have some money in her to design our final, big (ferry) boat,” she said, and she’s thankful for that.

Rep. Mike Armstrong: “It is a good, solid, stable budget. It’s not much excitement, here,” he said. He said he’ll be voting yes.

Rep. Marko Liias: “This budget represents a lot of great work for the people of Washington,” he said.

The budget passed 78 to 18.

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