March 26, 2021 – On March 24, 2021, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation met for a hearing entitled, “Driving the Road to Recovery: Rebuilding America’s Transportation Infrastructure.”
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March 25, 2021 – In what seems like the last, unfinished piece of 1990s railroad merger mania, Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern announced on March 21 that the two railroads had agreed to combine.
March 19, 2021 – This week, House Republicans voted to reverse their decade-old ban on requesting earmarked projects for their districts. The action was taken in light of the House Democratic majority announcing late last month that they were bringing back earmarks.
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March 19, 2021 – On March 17, the full House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing titled “The Business Case for Climate Solutions.” Addressing climate change was a key priority in last year’s House Democratic infrastructure bill, the Moving Forward Act (H.R. 2), which may be used as a starting point for this year’s infrastructure bill.
Monday, March 22 – House Energy and Commerce – full committee hearing on the committee’s infrastructure bill (the LIFT Act) – 11:00 a.m., via Cisco Webex. Tuesday, March 23 – House Ways and Means – full committee open hearing where House Members testify on their infrastructure priorities – 10:00 a.m.,…
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March 19, 2021 – (Since the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee recently announced that his panel will bring back earmarking of special projects for legislators (for Democrats, at any rate – Republican participation is not yet certain), I decided to reprint my detailed analysis I wrote of the highway earmarks the last time T&I did so – the 2005 SAFETEA-LU law. The following article is substantially as it originally appeared in the January 17, 2006 issue of my old publication Transportation Weekly.)
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March 12, 2021 – President Biden signed into law yesterday the latest $1.9 trillion COVID relief and economic stimulus bill (H.R. 1319), now called the American Rescue Plan Act.
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March 12, 2021 – Could Congress provide guaranteed multi-year funding for transportation infrastructure without raising highway user taxes and while making the Highway Trust Fund solvent once again?
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