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Senate on deck for approving House’s 3-month extension for transportation funding
The House has passed H.R. 3236, a new 3-month extension that provides financing for the Highway Trust Fund and other transportation expenses. Current transportation funding will expire July 31. The bill now moves on to the Senate, which is expected to vote on the legislation today or tomorrow and then send it on to President Obama, […]
July 30, 2015
Roadbuilding
White House, transportation leaders push Congress to find highway funding solution
The White House, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and several industry associations are urging Congress to find a highway funding solution before the primary source of money, the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), becomes insolvent. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that insolvency to occur by the end of August. Related: VIDEO: What lawmakers are saying about […]
July 8, 2014
Roadbuilding
What lawmakers are saying about highway funding
On Friday, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx reminded state departments of transportation that the Highway Trust Fund’s “situation remains dire.” He noted in a letter to state DOT directors that the HTF is projected to run out of money at the end of August — one month before the current highway bill, MAP-21, expires — and […]
June 23, 2014
Roadbuilding
DOT to remain operational if government shuts down
The Senate is set to vote Friday on a resolution that could halt a federal government shutdown, according to a report from Politico, but the operation of the U.S. Department of Transportation would not be in jeopardy either way. Though a government shutdown would likely affect the DOT, Politico reported Wednesday in its Morning Transportation newsletter that a […]
September 27, 2013
Business
Congress passes fiscal cliff deal
With negotiations extended to the absolute deadline, Congress passed a deal on New Year’s Day that will that will prevent the U.S. from going over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Early Tuesday morning, the Senate passed the measure 89-8. Late Tuesday night, the GOP-run House of Representatives approved the measure 257-167. Among House Republicans the vote […]
January 2, 2013
Roadbuilding
Shame
Last Friday reauthorization was extended for the ninth time, this time for 90 days. You know what I feel about it. So does Ezra Klein apparently. “On Friday, President Obama signed the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. Odds are you didn’t hear about it. There wasn’t a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, and […]
April 4, 2012
Roadbuilding
Civic Lessons
Watching the reauthorization wheels go round and round remains one of the most frustrating occupations in our industry. The Senate Bill creeps ahead after some extraneous amendments have been hurdled. The House Republicans are now looking at a heavily reworked bill, and one that seems to have as much support as the pre-worked bill. Instead […]
March 1, 2012
Roadbuilding
We get to it when we get to it
I think maybe Congress is using one of Salvador Dali’s clocks to figure out when we might be a reauthorization bill. Then again, I suppose progress wasn’t supposed to be predictably smooth. Take progress on a new surface transportation bill. Congress is back and this legislation is expected to take a spot close to center […]
January 18, 2012
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