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Where We're At With HTF Reauthorization

July 23, 2015

July 23, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 23, 2015 - The U.S. Senate yesterday evening took the first step towards starting formal debate on the surface...

FY19 HTF Shutdown Fits In Well With Tradition of HTF Bill “Triggers”

July 22, 2015

July 22, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 22, 2015 - Section 80003 of the Senate DRIVE Act now provides for a clean and complete shutoff of...

Senate Rejects Initial Vote to Move to DRIVE Act

July 21, 2015

July 21, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 21, 2015 - A test vote on moving forward on surface transportation legislation failed in the Senate today after...

1955 Democratic National Committee Opposition Research Memo on the Clay Commission Highway Plan

July 20, 2015

July 20, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION

April 1955 opposition research memo from the Democratic National Committee criticizing the "Clay Commission" Interstate highway plan submitted by President...

New HTF Extension To Dec. 18 Introduced in House

July 14, 2015

July 14, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 14, 2015 - At 7:43 p.m. last night, House leaders introduced a new bill extending Highway Trust Fund programs...

The State of Transportation Funding: A Realistic Examination of Pseudo-Federalism

July 10, 2015

July 10, 2015 | Elizabeth Bastian

In a recent article published in Innovation NewsBrief entitled “A Conservative Vision for the Future of the Highway Trust Fund,”...

Follow Reagan's Example, and Fill Up America's Highway Fund

July 10, 2015

July 10, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 10, 2015 With the Highway Trust Fund set to expire three weeks from today on July 31, 2015, the Washington...

EPW Committee Approves DRIVE Act

June 24, 2015

June 24, 2015 | Jeff Davis

June 24, 2015 - The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has approved S. 1647, a six-year highway funding authorization...

Senators Introduce Amtrak Bill; Homeland Funding and STB Reauthorization Advance

June 9, 2015

June 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

June 19, 2015 - Since yesterday morning’s ETW, three things have happened. First, Senators Wicker and Booker introduced a bipartisan...

1982 White House Gas Tax Decision Memoranda

June 9, 2015

June 9, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION

A series of three late November 1982 memos from DOT and OMB trying to refute the arguments that each agency...

1961 HHFA Recommended Urban Planning Draft Legislation

June 3, 2015

June 3, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION

A June 1961 memo to President Kennedy from the head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency transmitting the draft...

What Does the Amtrak Incident Tell Us About How We Can Improve Safety?

June 1, 2015

We still do not know the cause of the Amtrak crash that killed 8 people and injured 200. But this...