Issues & Modes / Funding & Finance
Senate Proposal Contains $47.2 Billion in HTF Transfers and Offsetting “Pay-Fors”
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJuly 22, 2015 The new substitute version of the Senate surface transportation bill offered by Majority Leader McConnell contains a...
Blumenauer, 24 Other Democrats Introduce 15 Cent Per Gallon Gasoline Tax Increase For HTF
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 11, 2015 Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-CA) and 24 Democratic cosponsors last week introduced legislation to increase federal...
Senate Deciding Whether To Take Up Highway Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJuly 22, 2015 At this hour (late Wednesday afternoon), the Senate is waiting to hold a “re-vote” on a procedural motion to take...
Sen. Sanders Offers $1 Trillion (??) Infrastructure Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the new ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee, yesterday introduced...
CBO Has (Preliminary) Good News For THUD Appropriations Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 Buried within the voluminous supporting data of the new CBO baseline is some preliminary good news for the...
CBO Baseline For Overall Transportation Spending
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 The primary users of the baseline data from this week’s Congressional Budget Office baseline are the House and...
Aviation Funding In the CBO Baseline
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 The CBO baseline for federal aviation programs reiterated one thing that was (in retrospect) obvious back in...
New CBO Baseline Defines HTF Bailout Needs; Sets Parameters For Surface Reauthorization Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJanuary 28, 2015 On Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook. The...
Preparing a Nation for Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Barriers and Policy Recommendations
Sep 09, 2015Preparing a Nation for Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Barriers and Policy Recommendations is the second annual William P. Eno...
Lessons Learned from TIGER Discretionary Grant Program
Sep 09, 2015Lessons Learned from the TIGER Discretionary Grant Program looks at key players involved in the creation and sustaining of the program...
President Requests $74 Billion Discretionary Spending Cap Increase
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 4, 2015 The President’s budget released this week contains the official discretionary spending cap totals under the...
White House Again Proposes Unlikely Cuts in Corps of Engineers Funding
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 4, 2015 Once again, the White House and Congress have a fundamental difference of opinion over how much money the U.S. Army...