Issue / Appropriations
House DOT Appropriations Bill for FY21 Tries to Fund Party Priorities in Tight Budget Environment
Jul 07, 2020 | Jeff DavisAt 11 a.m. this morning, the House Appropriations Committee released the text of its draft fiscal year 2021 Transportation-Housing...
FY 2021 House USDOT Appropriations Bill – Funding Table
Jul 07, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis a three-page PDF file showing the account-level appropriations and limitations made by the draft fiscal 2021...
TSA, Coast Guard Get Operational Increases in FY21 House Bill
Jul 07, 2020 | Jeff DavisYesterday, the House Appropriations Committee released the text of the draft fiscal 2021 Homeland Security appropriations...
House Spending Bills Freeze FY21 Water Infrastructure Funding at FY20 Levels
Jul 07, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe House Appropriations Committee has been releasing the text of draft appropriations bills for fiscal year 2021 every two hours this...
House Appropriations for FY21 to Move Ahead as Senate Stalls
Jun 19, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe fiscal year 2021 appropriations process in the U.S. Senate broke down this week, but the process in the House of Representatives...
How Realistic Are the House Surface Bill’s Suggested Appropriations?
Jun 03, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe surface transportation reauthorization bill released by House Democrats this week would provide $412 billion in federal funding...
Trump Administration Selects Indiana New Start, 9 Small Start Transit Projects for Future Funding
Jun 02, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Department of Transportation announced a series of funding allocations for Capital Investment Grant (CIG) projects on May 29,...
COVID Costs: $500 Billion in Discretionary Appropriations (And Counting)
May 08, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which has found it difficult to analyze new spending legislation day-to-day while its...
FY21 Transportation-HUD Budget Situation Improves By $3.25 Billion
Apr 17, 2020 | Jeff DavisAs everyone in Congress was preoccupied with coronavirus, the Congressional Budget Office issued two reports in March that are normally...
CBO Says Coronavirus Response Enacted So Far Will Provide $2.8 Trillion
Apr 16, 2020 | Jeff DavisToday, almost three weeks after the mammoth "CARES Act" (the third legislative installment of coronavirus response) was signed into...
State DOTs Request $50 Billion in New Federal COVID Assistance, $800 Billion Surface Transportation Bill
Apr 07, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) yesterday requested $50 billion in emergency federal...
Senate COVID Bill Stalled; House Plan Would More than Double USDOT Appropriations
Mar 23, 2020 | Jeff Davis4:45 p.m. The Senate is still stuck in a partisan logjam over its coronavirus response legislation, having failed again this...