Issues & Modes / Governance
Omnibus FY 2015 Appropriations Bill Now Online
Dec 09, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2014 - 8:21 P.M. The text of the omnibus FY 2015 appropriations package, funding most federal agencies through September...
Overview of Final FY 2015 USDOT Appropriations
Dec 09, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2014 – 9:05 p.m. Initial overview. The omnibus package will take the form of a House amendment to the Senate...
Omnibus Appropriations Delayed For Non-Appropriations Reasons
Dec 09, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2014 – 9:45 A.M. Delays in negotiating non-appropriations provisions of the final omnibus appropriations measure for...
Update – The Week Ahead
Dec 08, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 8, 2014 – 7:30 a.m. This is the last scheduled week of session for the 113th Congress, and Congressional leaders have a...
How To Get A Transportation User Tax Increase Through the House of Representatives
Dec 04, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 4, 2014 Many observers of transportation debates have long wondered: how do we get a user tax increase through an anti-tax...
Congress Returns For Hectic Final Session
Dec 02, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 2, 2014 – 11:00 A.M. As Congress returns from the Thanksgiving recess to face what is supposed to be the last two weeks...
Could Building a Canal In Nicaragua Be the Answer?
Nov 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY AARON J. GELLMAN Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University In 2013, Chinese interests revealed their...
Myths Surrounding Devolution of Federal Transportation Programs
Nov 25, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONAs the lame-duck session of Congress approaches, there is nascent optimism within the transportation community that perhaps this could...
The Highway Trust Fund Under TEA21, SAFETEA-LU and MAP-21
Nov 20, 2014 | Jeff DavisNovember 20, 2014 The following chart shows Highway Trust Fund annual new spending obligation authority granted by Congress...
President Nominates NHTSA, STB Heads
Nov 20, 2014 | Jeff DavisNovember 20, 2014 As the USDOT nomination backlog at the White House builds, President Obama in recent days has nominated a new head...
Congressional Leadership & Committee Elections Begin
Nov 20, 2014 | Jeff DavisNovember 20, 2014 Members-elect of the upcoming 114th Congress have begun electing party leaders and selecting committee...
Backlash Against President’s Immigration Actions Threatens to Blow Up FY15 Omnibus
Nov 20, 2014 | Jeff DavisNovember 20, 2014 The staffs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have been working diligently for the last two weeks...