Tags: congress
Cat exec: Creating jobs top priority with new highway bill
July 15, 2010
Fostering long-term economic growth and creating American jobs should be the top priorities in the passage of a new, multi-year federal highway and transit investment bill, Caterpillar Inc., Worldwide Product ...
NAPA holds Congress accountable for reauthorization inaction
July 02, 2010
With the construction industry continuing to shed jobs, the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) has mounted a campaign to mobilize the asphalt pavement industry and hold Congress accountable for its ...
American Iron and Steel Institute: EPA’s greenhouse gases ‘tailoring rule’ will cost jobs
May 13, 2010
American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) President and CEO Thomas J. Gibson offered the following comment today on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Tailoring Rule.
“The Tailoring Rule issued by the ...
Rep. Duncan: Reauthorization stalled because no one can agree
April 15, 2010
U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), Highways and Transit Subcommittee Ranking Member, told his colleagues during a hearing on using innovative financing practices to deliver surface transportation projects that ...
ARTBA to Congress: Public-private partnerships, raise user fees will help address U.S. transportation problems
April 15, 2010
The massive gap between current federal investment levels and what the U.S. Department of Transportation says is needed to maintain and improve America’s highway and transit systems cannot be closed ...
ARTBA urges clarity, flexibility in transportation planning process
April 09, 2010
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) told the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in comments submitted April 9 that the “categorical Exclusion” (CE) process should be ...
Jobs Bill = [some] jobs
March 29, 2010
Infrastructure spending = jobs.
Why is this simple equation not fully understood in Washington? Maybe it is understood but not accepted. Sometimes its possible to see Congress as a group of people ...
Federal Report Evaluates Condition & Performance of Nation’s Transportation System
February 08, 2010
Spending by all levels of government on the nation's highways and transit lines has increased substantially in recent years but steep increases in construction costs have eroded the purchasing power ...
$450 billion omnibus spending bill passed; core highway program receives $41.07
December 16, 2009
Included in the $450 billion omnibus spending bill passed by the House on Dec. 10, a $67.9 billion Transportation-HUD spending bill lead the six-bill package.
The House voted 221 to 202 ...
Step away from the computer and pick up the phone TODAY
December 10, 2009
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 ...





