Federal, state, and local governments all play a significant role in funding $300 billion in annual transportation spending. The federal government supplies important capital funding for highways, transit systems, airports, waterways, and ports while also operating the nation’s air traffic control system. State and local governments have an equally important task to invest in and operate their transportation networks and rely on a broad range of revenue sources, from general revenues and debt, to fuel taxes, fees, and tolls.
Tuesday, July 24 – House Homeland Security – full committee business meeting to mark up several transportation security bills (full...
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July 20, 2018 - The House of Representatives this week passed a non-binding resolution rejecting the idea of a carbon...
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July 13, 2018 - The infrastructure legislation that House Transportation and Infrastructure chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) has quietly been working...
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July 6, 2018 - Last Friday (after ETW went to press), the Federal Transit Administration sent out a "Dear Colleague"...
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This is a "Dear Colleague" letter from Acting Federal Transit Administrator Jane Williams to transit agencies dated June 29, 2018...
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This is an unofficial estimate of Senate support for Senator Harrison Williams' (D-NJ) mass transit bill, dated March 6, 1963,...
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This is a memo from White House staffer Mike Manatos (their legislative affairs contact for Senate offices) to his boss...
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These are the minutes of a strategy meeting held December 13, 1962 among a variety of mass transit interest groups...
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Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...