The June 23 legislative session solely for new transportation funding will go on, even though there is no glimmer of an deal between Democratic Governor Tim Kaine and a Republican-run House on statewide taxes to pay for it.

Without a breakthrough in the next 2 1/2 weeks, there will be a summer legislative impasse over hundreds of millions of dollars for highway needs for the second time since 2006.

Kaine has toured the state the past three weeks promoting his nearly $1 billion-a-year tax package to fund highway maintenance and new projects in northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.

House Republicans on Wednesday said his proposed one percent boost in the tax on car sales and an increase in the tax paid by people selling their homes was dead.