Issue / Highway Trust Fund
One-Year FAST Act Extension Passes House
Sep 25, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe House of Representatives has passed a one-year extension of FAST Act funding and policy as Division B of a larger fiscal-year-end...
House-Passed Extension Gives Highway Funding Increase to Texas and Colorado – And No One Else
Sep 25, 2020 | Jeff DavisAs predicted earlier this week by ETW with 99.999 percent accuracy, the Federal Highway Administration has confirmed to Congress that...
Rapid Response Webinar: AMA with Jeff Davis on CR and FAST Act Extension
Sep 25, 2020 | Madeline GormanCongress is acting on a ten-week appropriations extension and a year-long FAST Act extension. How will these be implemented, and what...
Estimated State-by-State Highway Funding Under 1-Year FAST Act Extension
Sep 22, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis is a two-sheet Excel spreadsheet. Sheet one is a table showing the process by which the Federal Highway Administration will...
One-Year Surface Extension, 72-Day Appropriations CR Introduced in House
Sep 21, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe text of a 72-day extension of fiscal year 2020 appropriations into fiscal year 2021, accompanied by extension of other unfinished...
Short-Term Appropriations Extension to Carry One-Year, Flat-Line HTF Funding Extension
Sep 18, 2020 | Jeff DavisCongress is waiting for the release of the text of a package of stopgap appropriations and other extensions that are scheduled for...
1956 Treasury Secretary Letter to Harry Byrd on Pay-As-You-Build Highways
Sep 12, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis PDF is a copy of a letter from Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to Senate Finance Committee chairman Harry Byrd (D-VA), dated...
Administration Befuddles Congress With Highway Trust Fund Revenue Estimates
Sep 11, 2020 | Jeff DavisAs legislators and Congressional staff negotiate the parameters of what increasingly looks like a one-year extension of the FAST Act,...
One-Year Surface Transportation Extension Seen as Most Likely Option
Sep 08, 2020 | Jeff DavisCongressional leaders and transportation stakeholders appear to be coalescing around support for a one-year surface transportation...
New HTF Forecast Worse for FY20-21, Not So Bad Long-Term
Sep 08, 2020 | Jeff DavisLast week, the Congressional Budget Office released a dismal new budget and economic outlook that estimates the effect of coronavirus,...
February 1956 Treasury Proposal for an “Interstate Highway System Fund”
Sep 06, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis is a two-page document dated February 8, 1956 from the Office of Tax Policy at the Treasury Department. It is a draft legislative...
1959 Gore-Eisenhower Letters
Sep 04, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis PDF file is an exchange of letters between Senator Albert Gore (D-TN) and President Eisenhower in the fall of 1959. Gore sent...