Issue / Federal Budget
Senate Proposal Contains $47.2 Billion in HTF Transfers and Offsetting “Pay-Fors”
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJuly 22, 2015 The new substitute version of the Senate surface transportation bill offered by Majority Leader McConnell contains a...
Sen. Sanders Offers $1 Trillion (??) Infrastructure Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the new ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee, yesterday introduced...
CBO Has (Preliminary) Good News For THUD Appropriations Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 Buried within the voluminous supporting data of the new CBO baseline is some preliminary good news for the...
CBO Baseline For Overall Transportation Spending
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 The primary users of the baseline data from this week’s Congressional Budget Office baseline are the House and...
Aviation Funding In the CBO Baseline
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 The CBO baseline for federal aviation programs reiterated one thing that was (in retrospect) obvious back in...
New CBO Baseline Defines HTF Bailout Needs; Sets Parameters For Surface Reauthorization Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 On Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook. The...
President Requests $74 Billion Discretionary Spending Cap Increase
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 4, 2015 The President’s budget released this week contains the official discretionary spending cap totals under the...
Administration Proposes Revised 6-Year, $478 Billion GROW AMERICA Surface Reauthorization
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 4, 2015 President Obama proposed a six-year, $478.3 billion surface transportation spending plan as part of his fiscal 2016...
President Submits $94.7 Billion FY16 USDOT Budget
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 4, 2015 The budget request for fiscal 2016 for much of the Department of Transportation is hard to separate from the...
FAA Short-Term Extension Coming in September – But How Long?
Sep 08, 2015 | Jeff DavisAugust 12, 2015 Among the “must-pass” items that Congress must address in September is a law extending the Airport and Airway...
Discretionary Spending Situation For 2016 Becomes Clearer
Sep 08, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 21, 2015 On January 12, the Congressional Budget Office released its updated estimate of the maximum levels of discretionary...
House’s FY 2016 USDOT Appropriations Bill Cuts Discretionary Spending, Freezes Major HTF Accounts; Bans Some Cuba Travel
Apr 28, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 28, 2015 The House Appropriations Committee released the full text of the proposed Transportation-Housing appropriations bill...