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Is this it? Or something like it?

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has released the full text of its surface transportation reauthorization bill. It’s called MAP-21 ( SAFETEA-LU it isn’t) and of course its an acronym (they have people for this) — Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act. The committee says The legislation maintains funding at current […]

November 7, 2011

More reauthorization money?

Heartening note in a Reuters report that House Republicans, especially House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman John Mica, may be willing and able to work on finding enough funding for a new surface transportation bill to keep it functioning at current levels. You’ll recall that Mica and fellow committee Republicans had presented a proposal that […]

October 3, 2011

Tower to Air Congress: Land that thing!

Okay so the President today calls on Congress to extend the surface transportation authorization before the current extension runs out September 30th. He is supported by nearly all the major stakeholders. Even Republican House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman John Mica who grudgingly said one more extensions (it will be the 8th) would be okay […]

August 31, 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 What was being done was superseded by a new, sudden and powerful reality.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

End EPA Jihad! — Mica

“EPA’s reguIn a press release from his office as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Mica said EPA "has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime." He said he expects the House to take up legislation that "reverses the erosion of states’ authority under a long-established partnership with the federal government to regulate the nation’s water quality. This effective partnership, set forth by the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA), has become increasingly besieged by the EPA as that agency has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime.",“EPA’s reguIn a press release from his office as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Mica said EPA "has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime." He said he expects the House to take up legislation that "reverses the erosion of states’ authority under a long-established partnership with the federal government to regulate the nation’s water quality. This effective partnership, set forth by the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA), has become increasingly besieged by the EPA as that agency has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime.",“EPA’s reguIn a press release from his office as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Mica said EPA "has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime." He said he expects the House to take up legislation that "reverses the erosion of states’ authority under a long-established partnership with the federal government to regulate the nation’s water quality. This effective partnership, set forth by the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA), has become increasingly besieged by the EPA as that agency has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime.",“EPA’s reguIn a press release from his office as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Mica said EPA "has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime." He said he expects the House to take up legislation that "reverses the erosion of states’ authority under a long-established partnership with the federal government to regulate the nation’s water quality. This effective partnership, set forth by the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA), has become increasingly besieged by the EPA as that agency has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime.",“EPA’s reguIn a press release from his office as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Mica said EPA "has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime." He said he expects the House to take up legislation that "reverses the erosion of states’ authority under a long-established partnership with the federal government to regulate the nation’s water quality. This effective partnership, set forth by the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA), has become increasingly besieged by the EPA as that agency has progressively undermined the states’ shared authority in order to institute a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime."

July 12, 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

A Closer Look at the Mica Proposal

It’s a start. Give the Chairman credit for getting us beyond hot air and into a document. Reading through John Mica’s House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s reauthorization proposal and there’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 […]

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

Mendez, Mica: ‘We’ll have a surface transportation bill by August recess’

by John Latta, Better Roads Editor-in-Chief ORLANDO–1st International Transportation Construction Management Conference Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) head Victor Mendez had at least positive notions today at the 1st International Transportation Construction Management Conference that is loaded with intense technical presentations. One: Mendez and House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Chairman John Mica appear to be […]

February 8, 2011

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