Issue / Fuel tax
Infrastructure: Thinking Outside the Beltway
May 05, 2016 | Robert PuentesInfrastructure is critical to the health of the U.S. economy, and to its people. Though largely lost in the noisy national debate and...
Happy 100th Birthday, Highway Donor-Donee Fight!
May 05, 2016 | Jeff DavisMay 5, 2016 Since the construction of the Interstate Highway System began to wind down in the 1980s, most reauthorization cycles for...
Tax Corrections Bill Tweaks Transit Benefits
Apr 12, 2016 | Jeff DavisApril 12, 2016 The chairmen of the tax-writing committees in the House and Senate introduced joint legislation this week to make...
Decline in Gas Tax Receipts Projected to Continue
Jan 28, 2016 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2016 The new budget forecast from the Congressional Budget Office projects that receipts from the 18.3 cent-per-gallon...
Legislators Await Final “Big Ticket” Spending, Tax Items To End This Year’s Congressional Session
Dec 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2015 Earlier this year, Congress set its proposed annual adjournment deadline for Friday, December 11. But it is now too...
Mineta Transportation Institute: What is the Financial Impact of Switching from Fuel Taxes to a “Road User Charge”?
Nov 20, 2015 | Elizabeth BastianLast week, Christopher E. Ferrell and David B. Reinke of the Mineta Transportation Institute released a report titled “Household...
1982 (Nov. 10) Cabinet Meeting – Papers on Gas Tax Increase
Nov 09, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONWhite House papers, letters and memos relating to the November 10, 1982 meeting of the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs to discuss...
Highway Bill On House Floor This Week – Amendment and Cost Estimate Update
Nov 01, 2015 | Jeff DavisMonday, November 2, 2015 - 9:24 a.m. (Note: This issue of ETW Express is so lengthy that some readers may find it easier to print...
House Amendments to DRIVE Act Filed with Rules Committee – Non-T&I
Oct 31, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONETW summary and organization of all amendments to the DRIVE Act outside the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's jurisdiction...
1975 Ford Decision Memo on Highway Funding
Oct 30, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThis is a series of memos presented to President Ford in May 1975 requesting his decisions on highway funding policy for fiscal 1976...
House T&I Committee Approves Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill
Oct 23, 2015 | Jeff DavisOctober 23, 2015 The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee yesterday approved, by voice vote, a surface transportation...
HTF Tax Receipts for FY15 Rise Above Estimates and May Cause FY17 Spending Increases in House Highway Bill
Oct 22, 2015 | Jeff DavisOctober 22, 2015 The Treasury Department has released the unaudited year-end Highway Trust Fund tax receipt totals for the fiscal...