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Obama budget slashes safety investments
The FY2014 budget released by the Obama Administration on April 10 increases across-the-board spending by 2 percent, but cuts Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) programs critical to enhancing the safety of aggregates workers.
According to a report from the National ... Read More...
No budget until April?
So our president is delaying the budget once again.
According to a March 8 report from The Hill which cites Congressional sources, the Obama Administration won’t be releasing its 2014 budget until April 8 — more than two months late.
By law, ... Read More...
U.S. DOT to expedite 3 highway projects
By Truckers News Staff, a sister publication to Aggregates Manager, Better Roads, and Equipment World
The Obama Administration Oct. 11 announced 14 infrastructure projects across the country that will be expedited through permitting and environmental review processes, to ... Read More...
Rep. Dent: Why stimulus funds for cement importation terminal?
During an Oct. 13 press conference at the Keystone Cement Company in East Allen Township, Pa., U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent (Pa.-15) questioned the use of federal government financing to support the construction of a cement importation terminal in Staten Island, ... Read More...
LaHood lauds Senate for transit safety bill
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood yesterday commended the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for reporting out the Obama Administration’s transit safety bill, the first transit-specific safety bill ever sent to Congress by any administration, by a unanimous vote.
The bill ... Read More...
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