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.
Undated draft report prepared by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator and the Secretary of Commerce for President Kennedy on...
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Set of memos from May 1975 preparing President Ford to decide whether or not the Administration's forthcoming railroad policy bill...
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White House memos relating to a December 1, 1970 meeting of the "Transportation Policy Group" - White House, OMB, and...
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This is a series of Nixon White House memos from October 1970 - Congress had presented the President with the...
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December 9, 1970 OMB memo detailing a December 8 conversation between OMB staff and the House Republican members of the...
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Memo of December 8, 1970 providing a record of a telephone call between a Nixon Administration official and the Republican...
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Draft letter from OMB to the conferees on the 1970 highway bill (H.R. 19504) expressing Administration views on items in...
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December 1, 1970 update of this document from the Department of Transportation expressing whether not DOT's views on each of...
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OMB memo from sometime in November 1970 giving detail of each major issue at stake in the pending highway bill...
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Memo from the Department of Transportation (undated, but from some time in November 1970) expressing DOT's position on the various...
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November 24, 1970 White House legislative affairs staff memo discussing meetings held with key GOP legislators on the Federal-Aid Highway...
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November 17, 1970 memo summarizing a meeting between White House staff and General Motors lobbyist Ray Ouelette discussing the internal...
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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,...