• Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), together with Ranking Committee Republican Jim Inhofe (Okla.), gave House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) compromise language for a transportation bill.
• The Senate offer addressed issues directly related to transportation and did not address funding, Keystone pipeline or coal ash.
• Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) says he may press for a six-month extension of federal highway and transit programs if the House and Senate fail to reach a deal by June 30 .

From the article: Negotiations between the House and Senate over their separate versions of a transportation authorization bill accelerated somewhat this week when Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), together with Ranking Committee Republican Jim Inhofe (Okla.), personally delivered an offer of compromise language on provisions to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.).