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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday that passing a short-term extension of highway funding would be "bad for jobs."

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that he would prefer lawmakers pass a six-month extension of the current funding for road and transit if the conference committee that has been negotiating a possible compromise between the House and Senate on a multi-year highway bill fails to reach an agreement.

But in a series of tweets to his 19,962 Twitter followers Thursday, Hoyer took Boehner to task for the suggestion.

"Resorting to yet another short-term highway extension is bad policy, bad for jobs #MyWayOrNoHighway," he said in one tweet. 

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