Issues & Modes / People & the Environment
House Appropriations Approves FY16 Corps of Engineers Budget
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 22, 2015 The full House Appropriations Committee earlier today approved, by voice vote, a $35.4 billion appropriations bill...
House Subcommittee OK’s FY16 Corps of Engineers Water Project Budget
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 16, 2015 Earlier today, a House subcommittee approved a bill providing $5.6 billion in appropriations for the water resources...
House-Senate FY16 Budget Talks Begin
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 16, 2015 House-Senate negotiations on the fiscal 2016 budget blueprint have begun in earnest, with the House appointing a team...
Senate Passes FY16 Budget After 16-Hour “Vote-a-Rama” Session
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 2, 2015 The Senate passed its fiscal 2016 budget plan (S. Con. Res. 11) in the wee hours of Friday morning, March 27, after a...
House Passes FY16 Budget; Senate Still Debating
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 26, 2015 It’s budget week on Capitol Hill - the House and Senate are considering the annual budget blueprints on the floors...
McConnell Substitute Changes EPW, Commerce Bill Provisions
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJuly 22, 2015 Here are what appear to be the main changes in the EPW and Commerce portions of the bill from the time that the...
Homeland Funding Drama Ends with House Accepting Clean Year-Long Appropriations Bill
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 5, 2015 The long, slow-motion crisis over federal Homeland Security funding for fiscal year 2015 is over, as the House...
Lessons Learned From the Utah Transit Authority System Expansion
Sep 09, 2015The paper, Lessons Learned From the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) System Expansion, details UTA’s journey from a single-mode mass...
Highlights of Mass Transit Policy Changes in the DRIVE Act
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisJuly 22, 2015 Division B of the new McConnell substitute amendment for the DRIVE Act contains previously unseen provisions...
Tension Between Administration and Congress Over Corps of Engineers Water Project Funding Continues
Sep 09, 2015 | Jeff DavisFebruary 19, 2015 At a matched pair of hearings on February 11, members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees once again...
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...
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...