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Roadbuilding
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 letā€™s try and land this thing. House Republicans are looking out the right side of the plane and Senate Democrats out of the [ā€¦]
July 11, 2011
Safety
House rolls out six-year reauthorization proposal: Funding at last or financial road to ruin?
Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.) and Committee leaders on July [ā€¦]
July 11, 2011
Roadbuilding
House rolls out six-year reauthorization proposal
Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin.",Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes leveraging of limited resources, provides flexibility for states, and ensures long-term funding stability for job-creating transportation programs. However, Democrats are calling the proposed legislation the "Republican Road to Ruin."
July 11, 2011
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OCTA: Federal transportation bill lays tracks for more jobs
The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) applauded congressional leaders and U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) July 8, 2011, for taking the necessary steps to invest in Americaā€™s transportation future by releasing the federal transportation reauthorization bill.
July 8, 2011
Roadbuilding
Job Loses (count ā€˜em) Under Mica Bill ā€” Dems
Democrats say the Mica surface transportation proposal would cost every states jobs over itā€™s six year span. The total: 490,627 jobs. Hereā€™s their state by state count: Check out the table that outlines each stateā€™s job loss according to the Democrats.
July 8, 2011
Roadbuilding
A Closer Look at the Mica Proposal
Itā€™s a start. Give the Chairman credit for getting us beyond hot air and into a document. Reading through John Micaā€™s House Transportation and Infrastructure Committeeā€™s reauthorization proposal and thereā€™s no way to avoid the obvious reaction: this is not a lot of money. There are of course three major factors chairman Mica uses to [ā€¦]
July 8, 2011
Roadbuilding
Reauthorization Proposal Overview
Hereā€™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 ā€“ consistent with the amount of revenue deposited into the Highway Trust Fund during that time frame. *Better Leverage Existing Resources: Funds [ā€¦]
July 7, 2011
Roadbuilding
Micaā€™s ā€œback-of-the-envelopeā€ 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 [ā€¦]
July 7, 2011
Safety
Mica, House transportation leaders to roll out transportation reauthorization proposal
House Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.) and Committee leaders will roll out a comprehensive, multi-year transportation reauthorization proposal on July 7.
July 6, 2011
Roadbuilding
A Small Bill
Itā€™s the sort of story you donā€™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 [ā€¦]
July 6, 2011
Roadbuilding
TCC Day Two: Heating up more
Real pressure cooker in Washington at the ARTBA Federal Issues Program and the TCC Fly-In.Ā  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 [ā€¦]
May 24, 2011
Roadbuilding
Contractors want infrastructure changes in D.C.
Nothing fancy here folks. Coinciding with the TCC Fly-Inā€™s increasing the pressure on Congress to get to Reauthorizatioin,Ā  Associated General Contractors call for some serious changes in the way the Feds handle infrastructure. Iā€™m rushing andĀ  in and our of meetings so no editing here, Iā€™m just pasting in the AGC press release from this [ā€¦]
May 23, 2011
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