ISSUE / Week of March 30, 2015
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April 2, 2015 The Obama Administration this week submitted the legislative text of a slightly revised version of the GROW AMERICA Act, its six-year, $478 billion surface transportation...
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Air Traffic Control,AppropriationsSeptember 09,2015 |Senate Passes FY16 Budget After 16-Hour “Vote-a-Rama” Session
April 2, 2015 The Senate passed its fiscal 2016 budget plan (S. Con. Res. 11) in the wee hours of Friday morning, March 27, after a lengthy “vote-a-rama” session. Due to a loophole in the...
Appropriations,Federal Budget,Federal Governance,Governance,Highway Trust Fund
With Budget Total Set, 2016 Appropriations Process Can Now Begin
September 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 2, 2015 Although both chambers of Congress are taking a two-week recess right now, this week marks the start of the period during which the House and Senate Appropriations Committees can...
Federal Funding,Federal Governance,Fuel tax,Governance,Public transit
Volatile Revenues For Transportation Trust Funds: A Cautionary Tale
April 10, 2015 | Jeff Davis(Ed. Note: ETW was researching efforts to provide a permanent, dedicated funding stream for federal mass transit programs in the 96th Congress (1979-1980) when we ran across an interesting set of...