House votes to extend transportation funding after rancorous debate After a morning of angry, finger-pointing debate, the House voted to extend the nation's transportation funding at current levels for 90 days, counting on the Senate to follow suit before the money runs out at midnight Saturday. "I don't think it's appropriate that members of my conference be referred to as bozos," Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) said at one moment that characterized the level to which the bitterness descended. Undaunted, Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.) rose to repeat the charge that Republicans had behaved like circus clowns in fumbling their own five-year transportation funding bill, which stalled in the face of bipartisan opposition and a hail of outside condemnation. The vote came at the critical moment in the annual construction cycle, the eve of the launch season for highway projects.