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The pros and cons of transportation funding options

Following transportation funding discussions at this week’s Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) Fly-In in Washington, D.C., Politico has reported the pros and cons of the four most popular money-raising options. Lawmakers at the Fly-In discussed four main options for funding infrastructure projects: implement a higher gas tax, enforce a vehicle-miles-traveled fee, expand oil and gas drilling […]

June 6, 2013

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Funding talks on The Hill lay groundwork for reauthorization

Debriefing a number of contractors and agency folk who spent most of the daylight hours yesterday talking to politicians on The Hill last night was not a very uplifting experience. They had gone to talk to members of Congress who are influential–some big-time, some not so–in funding transportation infrastructure. And most said they heard what […]

June 6, 2013

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Inhofe: Obama’s $500 billion to $600 billion reauthorization bill “not going to happen”

Oklahoma conservative Republican Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), who has “been through,” as a he puts it, eight reauthorization bills, said after hearing outgoing Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood say President Obama’s goal was $500 billion to $600 billion long-term reauthorization bill: “It’s not going to happen.” But, he said, a long term, well-funded bill is […]

June 5, 2013

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Rahall: 2014 reauthorization to be different from MAP-21

Ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) committee and West Virginia veteran Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV) believes reauthorization in 2014 will be a far different process than the contentious and almost-failed MAP-21 work of 2012. Speaking to the Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, he recalled years on the committee […]

June 5, 2013

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LaHood: Expect major transportation infrastructure announcement from Obama

Expect a major announcement on transportation infrastructure from President Obama. That’s the word from outgoing Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. “Once we get past immigration, guns, the sequester, I think the President is going to be big and bold on transportation infrastructure. So I’m not going to steal his thunder. I think you’ll see him […]

June 5, 2013

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Boxer: Transportation funding is “patriotic issue”

The problems facing reauthorization have “nothing to do with politics,” said Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), addressing the Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) Fly-in in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. They “have to do with hard-nosed budgeting.” The major problems are all to do with funding, she insisted. “We need to find a way to find a long-term […]

June 5, 2013

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RoadWorks

Rural America’s vital road needs, Obama plans to “jumpstart” highway funding, highway cement rebound on hold and many more industry news items are featured.

October 1, 2010

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RoadWorks

Rural America’s vital road needs, Obama plans to “jumpstart” highway funding, highway cement rebound on hold and many more industry news items are featured.

October 1, 2010

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RoadWorks

Rural America’s vital road needs, Obama plans to “jumpstart” highway funding, highway cement rebound on hold and many more industry news items are featured.

October 1, 2010

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Financial District

Delayed reauthorization costs keep adding up with no relief in sight, a six-year surface transportation bill, the gas tax and infrastructure maintenance are among the issues featured.

July 1, 2010

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Step away from the computer and pick up the phone TODAY

Just pick up the phone. You know you can do it. Step away from the computer and do things what has become “the old-fashioned way.” Use your voice and make it heard today as part of the Transportation Construction Coalition’s (TCC) phone blitz to Congress. The TCC has organized a nationwide call-in TODAY, Dec. 10, to […]

December 10, 2009

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Financial District: Long Tunnel, No Light

Treading water. It was a metaphor raised several times during a gloomy press conference to paint a picture of American transportation contracting companies trying to survive.

December 1, 2009