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What? Another extension? Really?

This will surprise no one. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Ca), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee and therefore the key senator in any reauthorization legislation process, is setting up another extension for dear old SAFETEA-LU. Boxer said she will schedule a markup Sept. 8 on a bill that would extend federal surface transportation […]

August 19, 2011

Congress, send me that bill!

I keep wondering if there is a tipping point for our transportation infrastructure, a point where the entire game changes. Somewhat in the way a breached levee in New Orleans changed the work being done to defend the city against Hurricane Katrina. What was being done was superseded by a new, sudden and powerful reality. […]

August 12, 2011

Slow Train Comin’

“We have workers who need jobs and a country that needs rebuilding; an infrastructure bank would help us put them together.” President Obama, this week. It’s not exactly deck chairs on the Titanic; it’s more like taking the slow train to a destination we have to get to when a faster one is available. There […]

August 3, 2011

Sens. Boxer and Inhofe release outline for bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member, on July 19 released an outline for Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), a bipartisan proposal to reauthorize the nation’s transportation programs for two years. (Click here for an archived Webcast of […]

July 26, 2011

Dueling Proposals

Okay folks if you look out the left side of the aircraft you can see crumbling infrastructure and if you look out the right side you can see a crumbling economy. Now let’s try and land this thing. House Republicans are looking out the right side of the plane and Senate Democrats out of the […]

July 11, 2011

Job Loses (count ‘em) Under Mica Bill — Dems

Democrats say the Mica surface transportation proposal would cost every states jobs over it’s six year span. The total: 490,627 jobs. Here’s their state by state count: Check out the table that outlines each state’s job loss according to the Democrats.

July 8, 2011

Reauthorization Proposal Overview

Here’s a summary of the reauthorization proposal from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as it affects road and bridge industries. *Funding: Provides $230 billion over six years from the Highway Trust Fund – consistent with the amount of revenue deposited into the Highway Trust Fund during that time frame. *Better Leverage Existing Resources: Funds […]

July 7, 2011

Mica’s “back-of-the-envelope” bill is here

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman John Mica has just ended a two-hour webcast introduction of the $230B, six-year bill that he wants to replace SAFETEA-LU. Now I have to go through the bill itself to find the details. His core points were that this is a six year bill because a two year bill […]

July 7, 2011

A Small Bill

It’s the sort of story you don’t want to read because it will confirm the bad news you feared. Yet here it is in the Washington Post. Soon, maybe tomorrow, a bill to replace SAFETEA-LU will emerge from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. According to the Post, and also to a lot of people […]

July 6, 2011

TCC Day Two: Heating up more

Real pressure cooker in Washington at the ARTBA Federal Issues Program and the TCC Fly-In. One of those cases where a series of factors collide. The numbers are bad, the Congress is sitting on its assumptions and apparently making precious little progress on a new surface transportation bill, transportation infrastructure work is about the same […]

May 24, 2011

Contractors want infrastructure changes in D.C.

Nothing fancy here folks. Coinciding with the TCC Fly-In’s increasing the pressure on Congress to get to Reauthorizatioin, Associated General Contractors call for some serious changes in the way the Feds handle infrastructure. I’m rushing and in and our of meetings so no editing here, I’m just pasting in the AGC press release from this […]

May 23, 2011

TCC Fly-In: Increase the Pressure!

TCC-Fly-In and ARTBA Federal issues program just getting underway. Should be a dandy. I’ll be Tweeting and updating this blog. There used to be a star on television who asked his audience to “keep those cards and letters rolling in folks.” These next three days, Monday-Wednesday May 23-25, I would ask you to do just […]

May 23, 2011

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