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Roadbuilding

Obama expected to nominate Anthony Foxx as transportation secretary

President Obama is expected to nominate Anthony Foxx, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, as his new transportation secretary today, USA Today reported. If the Senate approves, Foxx will replace Ray LaHood. Foxx has led several transit infrastructure efforts in his city, including the Charlotte Streetcar Project, a third parallel runway at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport […]

April 29, 2013

Equipment

Obama budget slashes funding for DERA’s emissions reduction program

Let’s see…Solyndra gets $535 million in government cheese, goes belly up without ever producing a single product or service.  Al Gore-connected Fiskars gets half a billion government  dollars to build $97,000 electric cars in Finland, only 40 of which are being produced. Only movie stars can afford these, and even the New York Times says […]

April 12, 2013

Business

Obama’s 2014 budget includes $50B for infrastructure, “full support” for MAP-21

President Barack Obama has submitted his 2014 Fiscal Year Budget to Congress and a great deal of money has been set aside for construction projects. According to a report from our sister site Better Roads, Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget includes $50 billion for infrastructure repairs. Of that amount, $40 billion will go directly to Obama’s […]

April 12, 2013

Roadbuilding

Obama’s budget leaves out funding for transportation projects, Shuster says

On Wednesday, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Representative Bill Shuster said President Obama did not include a way to pay for the transportation projects in his proposed budget, The Hill reported. The proposed budget calls for $50 billion in infrastructure spending, including $40 billion for a “Fix It First” program, as well as $77 million […]

April 11, 2013

Roadbuilding

Obama’s FY2014 transportation budget: B+, maybe

Just what does transportation infrastructure get out of the President’s FY2014 budget? To be sort of ho hum about it, it’s what I think we expected; it’s okay but it doesn’t change much and it doesn’t knock your socks off. It could have been worse, it could have been seriously underfunded. Instead it’s got some […]

April 11, 2013

Roadbuilding

Obama’s 2014 budget provides $50 billion increase in infrastructure spending

President Barack Obama on April 10 presented Congress with a $3.8 trillion budget plan for the 2014 fiscal year, which includes $50 billion for infrastructure spending, according to the Associated Press. The $50 billion is intended for infrastructure investments and includes $40 bllion for a “Fix It First” effort. Fix It First is meant to […]

April 10, 2013

Business

Obama asks Congress to pass $21 billion bill for infrastructure improvements

On Friday, President Barack Obama proposed a $21 billion package of improvements for the country’s infrastructure, reports our sister site Better Roads. The plan is to be part of the President’s budget April 10th and includes $10 billion for an infrastructure bank that would bring together public and private funding. Also part of the plan […]

April 2, 2013

Roadbuilding

Obama proposes $21 billion infrastructure bill

On Friday, President Obama requested lawmakers approve a $21 billion package to improve the United States’ infrastructure, The Hill reported. The proposed package consists of $10 billion for an infrastructure bank, $4 billion for an investment program and $7 billion for state and municipal bonds. The funding for the projects proposed in the bill would […]

April 1, 2013

Roadbuilding

GUEST BLOG: What the re-election of President Obama, Republican House majority, Democratic Senate majority means for the construction industry

During the 2012 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney gave relative lip service to the subject of rebuilding America’s faltering infrastructure. Rather than positioning infrastructure as an integral part of the nation’s fabric, both treated construction funding as little more than a jobs generator. What’s more, many of the electorate (and fiscally […]

November 12, 2012

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

Mapping Map21’s reforms, an earmark windfall, cement industry backs new standard and other industry news items are featured.

September 6, 2012

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

Mapping Map21’s reforms, an earmark windfall, cement industry backs new standard and other industry news items are featured.

September 6, 2012

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

Reauthorization, an international bridge conference and bypasses are among the industry news items featured.

May 9, 2011