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Reauthorization — first glimpses, second guesses

So compromise wins. So it should; that’s what a Senate/House conference committees does. But looking at the first details of the new reauthorization bill, it’s impossible not to feel that this is a compromise that could have happened way sooner. Much of it is simply dumping Senate clauses. Not too much discussion needed here because […]

July 3, 2012

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Let’s say reauthorization was a simple thing

It could be a really interesting week in the surface transportation reauthorization debate in the Congressional conference committee. If you step way, way back from it, it’s possible to argue that the basics of an agreement are there on the one hand for a clean, sensible, no frills, hard-working bill — and a series of […]

June 10, 2012

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AASHTO tells Senate: ‘Transportation investment essential to meeting today’s key national priorities’

Transportation investment is essential to meeting today’s key national priorities: sustaining an export-led economic recovery, growing private-sector jobs, reducing the national debt and deficit, and keeping jobs in America, Susan Martinovich, president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and director of the Nevada Department of Transportation, told a key Senate […]

July 25, 2011