Eno Transportation Weekly
Week of April 5, 2021
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Appropriations, FY22,April 09, 2021 | Jeff DavisFY22 Discretionary Funding Request Would Boost Amtrak, New Starts
Today, the White House sent Congress the first parts of its fiscal 2022 budget request – the overall parameters (rounded to the hundred million dollars) of their requests for discretionary... -
FY22, Infrastructure,April 09, 2021 | Jeff Davis
Details of Transportation Programs in Biden Investment Plan Released
Last week's rollout of President Biden's "American Jobs Plan" was limited to one White House fact sheet and a background briefing, neither of which included much of a programmatic breakdown of the...
First Biden Budget Prioritizes Education, Health, Environment, Research
April 09,2021 | Jeff DavisThe White House released President Biden's discretionary spending summary today as the initial part of his fiscal 2022 budget request to Congress. The request calls for an 8.6 percent increase in...
Senate Procedural Ground Cleared for More Reconciliation Bills, but Politics May Not Be There Yet
April 09,2021 | Jeff DavisEarlier this week, the nonpartisan Senate Parliamentarian told Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) that a loophole in the Budget Act would allow the Senate to pass at least one more fiscal...
FTA Advances Three Small Start BRT Projects
April 09,2021 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Transit Administration announced this week that it had allocated $184 million in new funding for three new "small start" bus rapid transit projects under the FTA's Capital Investment...
Capitol Hill Events – Week of April 12, 2021
April 07,2021 | Jeff DavisTuesday, April 13 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – Subcommittee on Tourism, Trade and Export – subcommittee hearing on the state of travel and tourism during COVID-19 (witness...