DOT, Corps Funding Included in $2T "Minibus" Package Headed for House Vote Next Week July 23, 2021 | Jeff Davis July 23, 2021 - A seven-bill "minibus" package of appropriations legislation for fiscal year 2022, which includes the Transportation-HUD and...
Debt Limit Complicates This Year's Fiscal Endgame July 23, 2021 | Jeff Davis July 23, 2021 - As if a 50-50 Senate, a five-seat majority in the House, a bipartisan infrastructure bill written...
Earmark Patterns in the House's INVEST Act July 23, 2021 | Jeff Davis July 23, 2021 - We finally have an official FHWA tally of all the highway and transit earmarks made by...
Diversity in Aviation and Aerospace Industry Receives Attention in House Hearing July 23, 2021 | Caroline Marete July 23, 2021 - The House Aviation Subcommittee held a hearing this week to discuss issues of diversity and inclusion...
Capitol Hill Events - Week of July 26, 2021 July 22, 2021 | Jeff Davis Monday, July 26 – House Rules – full committee hearing on H.R. 4502, the "minibus" FY 2022 appropriations package that...
Pre-1960s Attempts to Create a U.S. Department of Transportation – Part 6 – Ike's Cabinet Committee Disobeys Orders July 22, 2021 | Jeff Davis July 22, 2021 - President Eisenhower came much closer to creating a Department of Transportation than was publicly known, then...
Bipartisan Talks Continue As First Vote on Bringing Up Infrastructure Bill Fails July 21, 2021 | Jeff Davis July 21, 2021 - A motion to take up the House-passed surface transportation and water infrastructure bill failed in the...
Bipartisan Infrastructure, Budget Plans May (Finally) Take Shape Next Week July 16, 2021 | Jeff Davis July 16, 2021 - This week was supposed to be the week that the big decisions were made and the...
Eno Opens Martin Wachs Memorial Essay Contest July 16, 2021 | Karen Price For this contest, the theme is Coming Out of the Crisis: A Look Past the Pandemic. We are looking for...
House Spending Panel OKs $109B FY22 DOT Budget July 16, 2021 | Jeff Davis July 16, 2021 - Earlier this afternoon, the House Appropriations Committee, by a party-line vote of 33 to 24, approved...
House Panel Approves $8.7 Billion in Corps Water Funding (With $2.1 Billion Taken Off-Budget) July 16, 2021 | Jeff Davis July 16, 2021 - Earlier today, the House Appropriations Committee approved a draft bill appropriating $8.7 billion for the Army...
Biden Signs Sweeping Market Competition/Concentration Order July 16, 2021 | Jeff Davis June 16, 2021 - On July 9, President Biden signed one of the widest-ranging executive orders of his Administration, EO...
