ISSUE / Week of July 26, 2021
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InfrastructureAugust 02,2021 |Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Including $567B for USDOT, Being Debated in Senate
A gigantic, bipartisan infrastructure bill introduced last night (after 72 solid hours of waiting around) is being debated in the Senate this afternoon, with hopes that it will pass that chamber by... -
Governance reform,Land useJuly 30,2021 |
Eno Releases Major Report on U.S. Transit Costs and Project Delivery
Cities, states, and metropolitan areas across the United States are investing in a range of public transit projects in order to connect people to jobs and economic opportunity, reduce greenhouse gas...
House T&I Looks Back at Oversight of COVID Relief
August 02, 2021 | Brianne EbyOn July 29, the House Transportation and Infrastructure full committee held a hearing, “Assessing the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Relief and Response Efforts and its Impact.” The aim of the...
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Compared to the House Bill
August 02, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe following is a comparison of funding levels in the House and Senate bills from several perspectives. Overall funding In terms of guaranteed funding, the bipartisan bill is $32.3 billion larger...
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Highways
August 02, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe bipartisan infrastructure bill released in the Senate yesterday provides a total of almost $349 billion in guaranteed funding for the Federal Highway Administration for the next five fiscal...
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Mass Transit
August 02, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe bipartisan infrastructure bill provides $91.2 billion in funding for the Federal Transit Administration over five years, of which $40.4 billion is "above baseline" spending increases provided by...
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Rail Programs
August 02, 2021 | Jeff DavisEven people with little interest in transportation have no doubt heard that the new bipartisan infrastructure bill has $66 billion for federal rail programs, "the biggest investment in rail since the...
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Multimodal Grants and “Megaprojects”
August 02, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe new bipartisan infrastructure bill in the Senate includes, almost verbatim, the surface transportation reauthorization legislation approved earlier this summer by the Senate Commerce, Science and...
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Airports and Ports/Waterways
August 02, 2021 | Jeff DavisThere were many areas of infrastructure (to say nothing of non-physical "infrastructure") where the members of the bipartisan Senate negotiating team could not reach agreement with President Biden...
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Safety Programs
August 02, 2021 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden's original American Jobs Plan proposed an even $20 billion for "Safety for all Users." When the fine print came out, it became clear that $8 billion of the $20 billion was for...
Explainer: What the “80-20 Highway-Transit Split” Really Is, and What it Isn’t
July 26, 2021 | Jeff DavisThere has been a lot of talk in the last week about the "80-20 highway-transit split," and not all of it was accurate. Herewith: a brief explainer. What 80-20 originally meant: In 1982, a political...
Capitol Hill Events – Week of August 2, 2021
August 01, 2021 | Jeff DavisWednesday, August 4 – Senate Appropriations – full committee markup of draft fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills: Energy and Water Development, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Military...