The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved S.2322, the MAP-21 Reauthorization Act, a long-term bipartisan bill to reauthorize the nation’s transportation programs for six years at current funding plus inflation, illustrating broad bipartisan support for passage by the full Senate.
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Senate Committee Touts Six-Year Transportation Bill
May 14 – According to the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA), leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a bipartisan, six-year surface transportation bill May 12 that would maintain spending on federal-aid highways at current levels plus inflation.
Read MoreAn Interview With Paul Detwiler III, New Enterprise Stone & Lime
ROCK PRODUCTS TALKS TO THE 2014 CHAIRMAN OF NSSGA ABOUT THE NEW STRATEGIC PLAN, REAUTHORIZATION AND THE BEST ADVICE HE EVER RECEIVED. By Mark S. Kuhar As you begin your term at the helm of NSSGA, what is the number-one thing you would like to accomplish? I am ready to fight the good fight for our industry. We will need…
Read MoreGrow America Act a Good Start
If the Foxx is guarding the henhouse, in this case it isn’t a bad thing.
Read MoreGrow America Act Unveiled
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx unveiled the administration’s Grow America Act , a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation reauthorization. NSSGA Chairman Paul I. Detwiler III, president and CEO, New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc., said, “We welcome the administration’s involvement in the reauthorization debate through introduction of a multi-year reauthorization bill. It is essential that Congress act…
Read MoreRinging the Alarm Bells
August 23, 2014 – The Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) has been ringing alarm bells about the Highway Trust Fund for more than a year. New numbers released by the Congressional Budget Office project the fund will run out of money by the end of August, which could cause significant disruptions during the busy summer construction season. AED stresses that the precarious…
Read MoreRyan Budget Proposal Advocates Cuts
Rep. Paul Ryan’s just-released budget would limit expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund to the dwindling revenues generated by the federal gasoline tax, but give states increased flexibility to pay for their highway projects, perhaps through keeping and spending the gas taxes collected in their state instead of sending them to Washington. The plan amounts to a decentralization of transportation…
Read MoreHighway Trust Fund Losing Steam Fast
According to the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA), the U.S. Department of Transportation updated its monthly snapshot projection for when the Highway Trust Fund will have to slow payouts to states for road and bridge projects, and the situation gets worse with each report.
Read MoreObama Lays Out Vision for Transportation
President Obama, on Feb. 26, spoke at the Union Depot train station in St. Paul, Minn., where he outlined his vision for investing in America’s infrastructure with a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal.
Read MoreARTBA Has Message for ConExpo-Con/Agg Attendees
With federal highway and bridge funding to the states in jeopardy later this year, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) is using the March 4-8 ConExpo-Con/Agg trade show in Las Vegas — one of the largest gatherings of U.S. transportation design and construction professionals in the world — to tell members of Congress to fix the Highway Trust…
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