White House Issues Blanket Veto Threat on FY 2016 Appropriations Bills September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis April 20, 2015 - The White House this week issued veto threats against the first two fiscal 2016 appropriations bills...
Still No Agreement on HTF Extension; Late-May Brinksmanship Likely September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis April 30, 2015 - Congressional leaders continue to talk behind the scenes about the duration of the forthcoming extension of...
Homeland Funding Drama Ends with House Accepting Clean Year-Long Appropriations Bill September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis March 5, 2015 - The long, slow-motion crisis over federal Homeland Security funding for fiscal year 2015 is over, as...
House Passes Bipartisan Amtrak Reform Bill September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis March 5, 2015 - Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 749, the bipartisan passenger rail reform bill, by...
House Subcommittee OK’s $71.5 Billion FY16 USDOT Budget September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis April 30, 2015 - A House appropriations subcommittee today approved a draft bill making available $71.5 billion in spending authority...
Almost 2/3 of House Members Sign Pro-Infrastructure Funding Letter September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis February 26, 2015 - Reps. Reid Ribble (R-WI) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) this week released a letter dated February 11...
House Appropriations Approves FY16 Corps of Engineers Budget September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis April 22, 2015 - The full House Appropriations Committee earlier today approved, by voice vote, a $35.4 billion appropriations bill...
Foxx Defends DOT FY16 Budget Before Senate Appropriators September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis April 22, 2015 - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx defended his department’s fiscal year 2016 budget request before a...
Senate Hopes To Avert Partial DHS Shutdown But Obstacles Still Remain September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis February 26, 2015 - The Senate cleared a major procedural hurdle on the path to preventing a partial shutdown of...
Bipartisan HTF Solvency Proposal Put Forward in House of Representatives September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis April 22, 2015 - A bipartisan group of House legislators last week made an interesting proposal to deal with the...
Lean Year Ahead For USDOT Appropriations in the House September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis April 22, 2015 - The Transportation-HUD subcommittee received an allocation of $55.27 billion. On its face, this is a $1.5...
Amtrak Requests $2 Billion For FY16 Operations, NEC Modernization September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis February 26, 2015 - Last week, Amtrak released its own budget request that has little to do with the White...
