ISSUE / Week of February 8, 2021
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Federal Funding,FY21February 12,2021 |House Committees Approve Budget Reconciliation Bill with $57.5 Billion in Transportation Funding
House committees have completed action on most of the $1.9 trillion in COVID relief spending requested by President Biden this week, with more action planned for next week. Overall situation. So... -
Federal Governance,InfrastructureFebruary 12,2021 |
Biden Starts Infrastructure Outreach to Congress with Senate Public Works
President Joe Biden kicked off his campaign of in-person outreach to Congress on infrastructure legislation by meeting in the Oval Office yesterday morning with the bipartisan leadership of the...
Los Angeles Launches Congestion Pricing Study
February 12, 2021 | Robert PuentesEarlier this week, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced the start of their much-anticipated project to tackle the region's infamous traffic congestion problem. LA...
CBO Updates Transportation Tax, Spending Forecasts
February 12, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued its updated Budget and Economic Outlook for the year yesterday. The headline news out of the entire document was CBO's estimate that, during the...
How the House Reconciliation Bill’s $30 Billion for Transit Will Be Distributed
February 12, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe budget reconciliation legislation approved by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week provides an additional $30 billion for financial relief for mass transit providers....
Still Waiting for Date of Biden Budget, Congressional Address
February 12, 2021 | Jeff DavisWhen will we see President Biden's budget proposal? Starting with Ronald Reagan in 1981, every new president has given his first speech to a joint session of Congress sometime in February of his...