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Obama asks Congress to pass $21 billion bill for...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Apr 02, 2013

On Friday, President Barack Obama proposed a $21 billion package of improvements for the country's infrastructure, reports our sister site ...

Congress discusses expanded oil and gas drilling as...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 29, 2013

An oil rig is shown on near Williston, North Dakota. Oil extraction discoveries have led to rapid industrial development ...

Congressional transportation funding talks at a...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 26, 2013

With the expiration of of the MAP-21 transportation bill coming in September of next year, congressional talks about how to ...

States begin new projects rather than repairing,...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 04, 2013

The main reason the U.S. can't afford to maintain its existing roads and bridges? States keep building new ones, reports ...

Opinion: Bill extensions becoming the norm for this...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Jan 21, 2013

I had to laugh a little, sadly, last week when I read that Congress couldn't get a farm bill passed. ...

Congress passes fiscal cliff deal

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 02, 2013

With negotiations extended to the absolute deadline, Congress passed a deal on New Year's Day that will that will prevent ...

FY13 funding for DOT released. Ouch!

Posted by John Latta on Jun 06, 2012

The House Appropriations Committee has released the fiscal year 2013 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill. Apparently the old ...

AED to host public policy event

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Mar 29, 2012

The Association of Leaders in Equipment Distribution (AED) will host the Washington Fly-In, a public policy event for the equipment ...

Final Word

Posted by Equipment World Staff on Sep 04, 2011

A Congress of Dunces By Kirk Landers Humorist P.J. O’Rourke once referred to the U.S. Congress as “A Parliament of Whores” in ...

Construction unemployment rises to 18.8 percent

Posted by Lauren Heartsill Dowdle on Dec 08, 2010

The construction unemployment rate jumped to 18.8 percent in November as the sector lost another 5,000 jobs since October, reports ...

Rowe to speak to Congress

Posted by Lauren Heartsill Dowdle on Sep 27, 2010

Mike Rowe, from Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” is taking on Congress Sept. 29. Rowe will speak to members of Congress, staffers ...

Cat exec: Creating jobs top priority with new highway...

Posted by Equipment World Staff on Jul 15, 2010

Fostering long-term economic growth and creating American jobs should be the top priorities in the passage of a new, multi-year ...

GEAR: Volkswagen Amarok concept pickup boasts V-6...

Just a few weeks ago we posited that if Volkswagen ...

VIDEO: Dump truck spins a massive burnout, smoke show

It's Friday and we don't know about you but we're ...

Chevrolet unveils new top-of-the-line 2014 Silverado High...

Replacing the LTZ as the top-of-the-line model in Chevrolet's Silverado ...

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