White House Names 3 More DOT Nominees; 4 Others Approved in Committee

October 21, 2021 | Jeff Davis

October 21, 2021 - This week, President Biden transmitted three more U.S. Department of Transportation nominees to the Senate, while...

Capitol Hill Events - Week of October 25, 2021

October 21, 2021 | Jeff Davis

Tuesday, October 26 – Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions – business meeting to consider nominations including the Fauth and...

FHWA Projects HTF Highway Account Won't Need Bailout Until Summer 2022

October 21, 2021 | Jeff Davis

October 21, 2021 - The Federal Highway Administration has notified Capitol Hill that the Highway Account of the Highway Trust...

Senate Appropriators Release Text of FY22 THUD Spending Bill

October 19, 2021 | Jeff Davis

October 19, 2021 - The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee has released the text of the nine draft appropriations...

Funding Table for FY 2022 Senate USDOT Appropriations

October 19, 2021 | Jeff Davis

This two-page PDF is a table showing the account-level appropriations provided by the draft Senate Transportation-HUD appropriations bill for fiscal...

HTF Operating Deficit Dropped to $10.3B in FY 2021

October 18, 2021 | Jeff Davis

October 18, 2021 - Year-end information released today by the Federal Highway Administration reported that the federal Highway Trust Fund...

Capitol Hill Events - Week of October 18, 2021

October 18, 2021 | Jeff Davis

Tuesday, October 19 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change, and Manufacturing – subcommittee...

Debt Limit, Appropriations Showdowns Now Synced for December - Will Infrastructure Join Them?

October 8, 2021 | Jeff Davis

October 8, 2021 - The new short-term debt limit fix will run out in December, which means it may get...

White House Issues First Round of NEPA Regulation Re-Rewrites

October 8, 2021 | Jeff Davis

October 8, 2021 - This week, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued the first of multiple forthcoming rules undoing...

CBO Finds One-Fourth of Federal Highway Funding Increases Offset by State/Local Cuts

October 8, 2021 | Jeff Davis

October 8, 2021 - A new study by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office finds that "Under typical conditions, after receiving...

Senate Clears 1-Month HTF Extension for President's Signature

October 2, 2021 | Jeff Davis

October 2, 2021 - At 1:30 p.m. today, the U.S. Senate held a special session lasting less than five minutes,...

House Passes 30-Day Surface Extension as Infrastructure Bill Shelved Temporarily

October 2, 2021 | Jeff Davis

OCTOBER 1, 2021 - After a day-long lapse in Highway Trust Fund spending authority and the furlough of some 3,700...