House Republicans are playing chicken again with our economy, says AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department President Edward Wytkind on The Huffington Post.

Instead of moving a highway and transit bill that will put Americans to work—a move the Senate was able to pull off by a vote of 74 to 26—House leaders want to punt with another short-term extension.

There is an easy solution to this problem—the House can take up the Senate's bipartisan bill (MAP-21) and put millions to work and improve our surface transportation system. President Obama will sign that bill tomorrow.

Instead, the House GOP has wasted months trying to find the votes for its deeply flawed five-year bill that we described in February as a "grab-bag for K Street lobbyists and their corporate clients at the expense of public transit, Amtrak and transportation safety." Not surprisingly, they don't have many takers for their plan outside those K Street lobbyists.

The Senate's surface transportation bill would create or save nearly 3 million jobs. Unless Congress acts, funding for the program, including ongoing projects, will expire Saturday.

Activists are mobilizing around a simple message to the House, Wytkind says: "Get Moving" and pass the Senate surface transportation bill to help rebuild our transportation system and economy.
Join the campaign and take action on Twitter, and tell Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) @SpeakerBoehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) @EricCantor and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) @TransportGOP to #getmoving on this important legislation.

Read Wytkind's full post here. And check out the clock counting down to the shut-off of surface transportation funding.