July 17, 2020 – Weeks after the panel muscled a partisan surface transportation bill through the markup process, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a much different markup on July 15 to approve a bipartisan water resources bill by voice vote.
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Wednesday, July 22 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee business meeting to mark up pending legislation (including two airport bills, S. 3958 and S. 4162), and several nominations including Joel Szabat to be Under Secretary of Transportation (full agenda here) – 10:00 a.m., SD-G50 Dirksen. Wednesday, July…
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July 10, 2020 – The monthly jobs report from the Labor Department showed modest gains in many transportation sectors in June, but infrastructure construction jobs declined.
July 10, 2020 – Total U.S. VMT was up 27 percent in May from April (the peak of coronavirus lockdowns and stay-home orders), but was still 26 percent below May 2019.
July 10, 2020 – Net tax deposits into the Highway Trust Fund were down 41 percent in June 2020 versus June 2019, which (finally) tracks with refinery production of gasoline dropping by about 40 percent at the peak of coronavirus-related travel demand reduction.
Monday, July 13 – House Appropriations – full committee business meeting to mark up the draft Energy and Water and Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bills for fiscal 2021 – 1:00 p.m., 1100 Longworth. Tuesday, July 14 – House Appropriations – full committee business meeting to mark up the draft Defense, Commerce-Justice-Science, and…
July 8, 2020 – House Democrats this week unveiled their outline for the twelve bills that would fund the discretionary side of the federal government for fiscal year 2021. The spending outline adheres to the Budget Control Act spending caps totaling $1.298 trillion, set in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, but only by funding many Democratic priorities as off-budget emergencies, which require a Senate supermajority and Presidential approval, sometimes line-item by line-item, in order to be successful.