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Come Together, Right Now, Over Bill

Posted by: John Latta on

February 03, 2012

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The Association of Equipment Manufacturers is taking what I think will become a pretty popular position on the House’s HR7 reauthorization bill, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (AEIJA), ...

Running out of gas money

Posted by: John Latta on

February 01, 2012

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A new Congressional Budget Office report says that the Highway Trust Fund may be empty by fiscal year 2014. According to The Hill's transportation blog the CBO report projects the highway ...

Mica’s Move is Made: now let’s keep moving

Posted by: John Latta on

February 01, 2012

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House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and Members of the committee unveiled the American Energy an Infrastructure Jobs Act yesterday. I would like to think contractors, subs, agencies,equipment dealerships ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, a (draft) reauthorization

Posted by: John Latta on

January 31, 2012

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Really? We have waited and waited and waited (eight times) for a new surface transportation bill - quick, who won the Super Bowl the last year of SAFETEA-LU) -- with details ...

Game On

Posted by: John Latta on

January 31, 2012

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The press conference is on the way today, so guesswork now is probably a waste of time. But just which reauthorization bill we see today will make a major difference ...

Today?

Posted by: John Latta on

January 31, 2012

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House Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL) and Committee Members will roll out a long-term reauthorization and reform of transportation programs at a press conference today. This cornerstone ...

Back to where we were?

Posted by: John Latta on

January 26, 2012

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Have we come as far as we are going to come for a while with reauthorization? Was the recent promise of some sort of bipartisan breakthrough just that?As House Transportation ...

We get to it when we get to it

Posted by: John Latta on

January 18, 2012

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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 ...

Think Locally, Act Nationally – Carnegie Report

Posted by: John Latta on

January 09, 2012

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The best thinkers -- and doers -- in transportation infrastructure might just be found far far from our nation's capital. When it comes to giving America the best transportation infrastructure it ...

I’d borrow for infrastructure says leading GOP candidate

Posted by: John Latta on

December 19, 2011

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Guess who said this? "You have to prioritize those things which are most important to you and infrastructure and having good roads and bridges and rail lines and air ...

Transportation bipartisanship goes rank and file

Posted by: John Latta on

December 08, 2011

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It might just stick. Bipartisanship in the quest for a new surface transportation bill arose from the depths of the summer of our discontent with SAFETEA-LU's sucessor; and it seems to ...

Reauthorization — actual progress

Posted by: John Latta on

November 09, 2011

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Maybe, just maybe, we have some progress, maybe even some momentum. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has oh so recently announcing it's two-year surface transportation bill proposal, (see ...
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