IIJA vs BIL: What’s In a Name?
December 3, 2021 – What to call the new law – the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law?
Capitol Hill Events – Week of December 6, 2021
Tuesday, December 7 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports – subcommittee hearing on ocean shipping supply chain challenges (witness list here) – 10:00 a.m., SR-253 Russell. Tuesday, December 7 – House Energy and Commerce – Subcommittee on Energy – subcommittee hearing…
Biden Signs Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Into Law
November 19, 2021 – After a festive November 15 ceremony, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill (the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) into law as Public Law 117-58.
Supply Chain Logjam Is Subject of Another House Hearing
November 19, 2021 – On November 17th, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing entitled “Industry and Labor Perspectives: A Further Look at North American Supply Chain Challenges.” This examined the current supply chain problems, mostly by looking at the relationship between the maritime shipping, freight railroads, and the trucking industry, and how this can be optimized to ease the supply chain logjam currently happening in the U.S.
USDOT Announces $983 Million in FY21 RAISE Grants
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CBO Warns $2.2 Billion in BBB’s Transit, High-Speed Rail Funding Will Never Be Spent
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Senate Panel Approves DOT, FMC Nominees, but Sen. Scott Puts Hold on All DOT Noms
On November 17, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved two more Presidential nominees for transportation positions – Chris Coes, to be Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Policy, and Max Vekich, to be a member of the Federal Maritime Commission.
House Passes Scaled-Down, $1.9 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Bill, 220-213
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COVID Aid Is Slowing Regular Mass Transit Spending
November 19, 2021 – A look at recent issues of the Monthly Treasury Statement shows that the huge influx of COVID-related aid to mass transit providers has “crowded out” regular federal mass transit spending by about $3 billion since the start of the pandemic, with more spending slowdowns to come.
How Much Will the Infrastructure Bill Really Add to the Deficit?
November 17, 2021 – Scorekeeping rules required CBO to minimize the deficit increase to be caused by the infrastructure bill. The true deficit increase will be closer to $375 billion, not $256 billion.