Tags: congress

Tower to Air Congress: Land that thing!

August 31, 2011

Okay so the President today calls on Congress to extend the surface transportation authorization before the current extension runs out September 30th. He is supported by nearly all the major ...

Congress, send me that bill!

August 12, 2011

I keep wondering if there is a tipping point for our transportation infrastructure, a point where the entire game changes. Somewhat in the way a breached levee in New Orleans ...

We’re Marching on Congress, May 25

May 13, 2011

May 25 is the day, 11 a.m. is the time. Don’t bring pitchforks and torches, just your conviction that we need to do something more than we have been doing ...

EPA regulations battle surfacing

April 29, 2011

It had to happen. As EPA regulations continue to require industry to do more and change existing practices, the chafing had to eventually lead to some sort of outburst. And now ...

Zen and the Art of Parachute Jumping

January 06, 2011

I wonder. If politicians, wearing government-issue parachutes,  jumped out of airplanes (or were pushed, remember they're politicians) and decided not to deploy the chute to show their voting constituents how reluctant ...

SAFETEA-LU Extended Again. Again.

December 10, 2010

I suppose the best that can be said of it is that they didn't go playing brinkmanship games. The House just went ahead and approved a $1.2 trillion continuing resolution to ...

Bye Jim; Hi John

November 03, 2010

I'm not surprised John Mica will become chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, but like most of you I am surprised that Jim Oberstar will not even be ...

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 ...
1
Better Roads on Facbook Better Roads on Twitter