Tags: reauthorization
The details: T&I Committee approves American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act
- February 3, 2012
The Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee today approved the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act jobs legislation to reauthorize and reform federal surface transportation programs and ...
Senate committee releases full text of two-year reauthorization bill
- November 9, 2011
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has released the full text of a 600-page surface transportation reauthorization bill that will be marked up the morning of ...
Senate passes transportation bill funding motor carrier safety grants
- November 3, 2011
The U.S. Senate Nov. 1 passed a transportation appropriations bill that funds motor carrier state safety grants at a slightly higher level than the House version of ...
Top HNTB executive Paul Yarossi elected ARTBA chairman
- October 6, 2011
Paul Yarossi, a professional engineer with 40 years of experience and the president of HNTB Holdings Ltd, has been elected 2011-12 chairman of the American Road & ...
AASHTO applauds proposed Congressional action on the transportation extension legislation
- September 13, 2011
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) supports the efforts by both houses of Congress to advance a proposal to extend the current surface ...
AASHTO to President Obama: ‘State DOTs are ready to work now’
- September 12, 2011
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) supports President Barack Obama's message to Congress in his address on Sept. 8 that calls for a ...
‘U.S. needs long-term transportation investment, not short-term stimulus’
- September 6, 2011
Political dysfunction and intractable views on government spending of any kind are two major obstacles on Capitol Hill impeding passage of a long-term, robust federal highway and ...
Transportation officials to Congress: Thousands of jobs and countless transportation projects in jeopardy
- August 22, 2011
Unless Congress takes action, the legislation that authorizes federal highway and transit programs will expire on Sept. 30, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation ...
Sens. Boxer and Inhofe release outline for bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill
- July 21, 2011
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member, on July 19 released an outline for ...
House rolls out six-year reauthorization proposal: Funding at last or financial road to ruin?
- July 11, 2011
Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee leaders have rolled out a new six-year transportation reauthorization proposal that streamlines and reforms federal programs, expedites the project approval process, maximizes ...
OCTA: Federal transportation bill lays tracks for more jobs
- July 8, 2011
The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) applauded congressional leaders and U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) July 8, 2011, for taking the necessary steps ...
Mica, House transportation leaders to roll out transportation reauthorization proposal
- July 6, 2011
House Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.) and Committee leaders will roll out a comprehensive, multi-year transportation reauthorization proposal on July 7.
"The initiative will not ...
NSSGA chair: ‘We must take America back’
- April 7, 2011
The release of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s FY 2012 budget plan comes with mixed emotions in the industry, says the National Stone, Sand & Gravel ...
‘The Road to Reauthorization’ starts on Capitol Hill
- March 31, 2011
“In the spirit of March Madness, it’s time to get the surface transportation bill on the court and in play,” the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s ...
Congress clears surface transportation extension
- March 3, 2011
One day after the House passed the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011 by a final vote of 421 to 4, the Senate approved by voice vote ...
House approves 7-month extension of SAFETEA-LU
- March 3, 2011
The House of Representatives voted 421-4 on March 2 to extend until Sept. 30 federal highway and transit programs that are slated to expire on March 4.
The ...
Mendez, Mica: ‘We’ll have a surface transportation bill by August recess’
- February 8, 2011
by John Latta, Better Roads Editor-in-Chief, sister publication to Aggregates Manager magazine
ORLANDO—1st International Transportation Construction Management Conference
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) head Victor Mendez had at least a ...
NAPA’s Mid-Year Meeting lineup: Reauthorization and climate change
- June 2, 2010
The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced that the lineup of sessions for its Midyear Meeting will include the latest information about Congress’s progress on the climate ...
Rep. Duncan: Reauthorization stalled because no one can agree
- April 15, 2010
U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), Highways and Transit Subcommittee Ranking Member, told his colleagues during a hearing on using innovative financing practices to deliver surface ...
House OKs $15 billion jobs bill, Senate to vote on amendments March 16
- March 12, 2010
Congressional Democrats made headway on their top legislative priority — job creation — when the House of Representatives approved a $15 billion package of tax credits and ...
Orange flags warn Congress of job losses ahead
- November 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of last week’s dismal government unemployment data, two leading construction equipment industry trade groups are warning Congress that that the economy ...
Roadblocks to Reauthorization
- August 1, 2009
Stimulus funds jump-start construction in some areas, but long-term funding is needed for sustainable recovery.
by Therese Dunphy, Editor-in-Chief
Hungry for business, many aggregates producers are looking for opportunities ...
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