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.
June 21, 1986 letter from OMB Director Jim Miller to House Public Works and Transportation chairman Jim Howard expressing the...
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July 21, 1986 letter from OMB Director Jim Miller to Senate Environment and Public Works chairman Bob Stafford expressing the...
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October 2, 1986 letter from Transportation Secretary Dole to House Public Works and Transportation chairman Jim Howard expressing Administration views...
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October 2, 1986 letter from OMB Director Jim Miller to Senate Environment and Public Works chairman Bob Stafford expressing Administration...
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February 20, 1987 letter from Transportation Secretary Dole to the Senate members of the House-Senate conference committee on H.R. 2,...
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April 26, 1972 memo from White House aide Egil "Bud" Krogh to President Nixon requesting that he officially reject Transportation...
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Memo dated May 25, 1961 from the Housing and Home Finance Agency transmitting draft mass transit legislation to the White...
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Proposed legislation transmitted by the Transportation Department to Congress on May 20, 1968 entitled the "Airway User Act of 1968"...
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August 1, 1991 hearing of the House Rules Committee on H.R. 2950, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, at which...
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October 2, 2015 - High-level talks between senior members of the Congressional tax committees broke down today as those legislators...
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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,...