Issue / FY22
Senate Action on Budget Reconciliation Bill Slips to January as Congress Prepares to Adjourn for the Year
Dec 17, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Senate will be postponing floor consideration of the multi-trillion-dollar budget reconciliation bill until January 2022 at...
EPW Panel Releases Revised Text of Its Budget Reconciliation Title
Dec 16, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today released its title of the "Build Back Better" budget reconciliation bill today,...
FHWA Apportions $52.5 Billion in IIJA Highway Contract Authority to State DOTs
Dec 16, 2021 | Jeff DavisYesterday, the Federal Highway Administration formally gave state DOTs $52.5 billion in highway contract authority as the first annual...
Budget Reconciliation Bill Still Stuck in “Byrd Bath” Process
Dec 10, 2021 | Jeff DavisSenate staffers hope to begin the "Byrd bath" process for the budget reconciliation bill next week – a quasi-judicial proceeding...
Appropriations Stopgap Extended to Feb. 18, Delaying Some Infrastructure Funding Increases
Dec 03, 2021 | Jeff DavisGood news: the government shutdown that was possibly to have started tonight has been averted, thanks to legislation passed by Congress...
List of FY21 RAISE Grants (Capital Only)
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff DavisThis is a PDF of a spreadsheet listing all 63 RAISE grants for capital projects for fiscal year 2021, alpha by state postal code,...
CBO Warns $2.2 Billion in BBB’s Transit, High-Speed Rail Funding Will Never Be Spent
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff DavisAs part of the process of scoring the omnibus budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 5376, a.k.a. Build Back Better, or BBB), the nonpartisan...
House Passes Scaled-Down, $1.9 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Bill, 220-213
Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff DavisThis morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 5376, the "Build Back Better Act") by a...
Year-Long CR Would Threaten First Year of BIB Funding Growth
Nov 05, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe heads of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees met this week but failed to make progress on a framework for the fiscal...
Surface Transportation Programs Extended to Dec. 3 While Budget Reconciliation Bill Gets Refined
Oct 29, 2021 | Jeff DavisLast night, the U.S. House and Senate have both agreed to another one-month extension of federal surface transportation funding...
Revised Budget Reconciliation Bill Keeps Transit and HSR Funding, Cuts $18 Billion From Other T&I Priorities
Oct 29, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe revised budget reconciliation bill released yesterday afternoon by House Democratic leaders decreases the size of the House...
Senate Spending Plan for FY 2022 Becomes Clear
Oct 21, 2021 | Jeff DavisWhen the Senate Appropriations Committee released the text of the remaining nine general appropriations bills for fiscal year 2022 on...