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The Highway Trust Fund: It’s a Millennial Problem
January 1, 2015 | Elizabeth Bastian
Before embarking for a long summer vacation, Congress has disappointingly failed, once again, to pass an updated multi-year surface transportation...
A Counterpoint to, "A Constrained Federal Aid Highway Program: Rightsizing for the 21st Century?"
December 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton
BY KEVIN HEANUE Transportation Consultant In the October edition of Eno Brief, Steve Lockwood presented one view of a future...
2015: Year of Opportunity for Federal Transportation Policy?
December 25, 2014
As we look back on 2014, it is hard to draw many positive conclusions about recent progress on federal transportation...
CBO Implies Problem With 80-20 HTF Split; Enzi to Chair Budget; Musical Chairs at Senate Appropriations
December 18, 2014 | Jeff Davis
December 18, 2014 - A recent CBO report suggests that the Highway Trust Fund Mass Transit Account may need more...
Senate Passes Tax Extenders Bill and Approves Nominations
December 16, 2014 | Jeff Davis
December 16, 2014 - The Senate has passed the tax extenders bill, clearing it for the President’s signature, and has...
Senate Republicans Announce Committee Assignments
December 15, 2014 | Jeff Davis
December 15, 2014 - Senate Republicans announced their committee assignments for the upcoming Congress today, joining Democrats who made the...
Senate Passes FY15 Omnibus Appropriations Bill
December 14, 2014 | Jeff Davis
December 14, 2014 - Last night, the Senate finally passed the $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations measure, clearing it for the...
Government Shutdown Averted (Again)
December 13, 2014 | Jeff Davis
December 13, 2014 - After a four-hour series of tedious roll call votes on motions to go in and out...
Action on FY15 Omnibus Held Over Until Saturday (At Least)
December 13, 2014 | Jeff Davis
December 13, 2014 - Senate leaders spent all day and all night on Friday trying to negotiate an endgame for...
Update on Appropriations and on Democratic Senate Committee Assignments
December 12, 2014 | Jeff Davis
December 12, 2014 - The House of Representatives has passed another clean seven-day CRD, and Senate Democrats have announced their...
Senate 2014 Endgame
December 12, 2014 | Jeff Davis
December 12, 2014 - Earlier this afternoon, Republican Leader McConnell got up and dangled before Senators the attractive prospect of...
