Tag: capitol hill

Roadbuilding

Bipartisan Congressional caucus pushes plan to fund infrastructure work

The Problem Solvers Caucus is a bipartisan group pushing its Rebuilding America's Infrastructure plan forward on Capitol Hill. Details here on Equipment World.

June 14, 2019

Roadbuilding

As infrastructure talks fail, trade groups still hope for road, bridge funding

These groups are calling for a solution to fix the country’s crumbling roads, bridges and other infrastructure and hoefully as soon as possible. More here.

May 27, 2019

Safety

House subcommittee approves bill cutting OSHA, MSHA, NIOSH funding

The House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee met July 7 to mark up the text of a draft bill released by the House Appropriations Committee for FY 2017. According to a report from Safety + Health, the bill’s proposed Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) budget of $534.4 million would be approximately 3.3 […]

July 13, 2016

Roadbuilding

FIU’s Azizinamini lobbies USDOT, Congress for accelerated bridge construction

Atorod Azizinamini, who heads up Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Engineering & Computing research on Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC), made a presentation of recent ABC findings before the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on June 23, according to an FIU news release. The goals of the presentation were to encourage the department to place greater emphasis on ABC, which […]

July 1, 2016

Roadbuilding

Financial District: The Influence Business

The Center for Public Integrity releases an investigative report about lobbyists in the transportation industry.

October 1, 2009