Wednesday, May 20 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee business meeting to consider several items including including S. 1894 (maritime shipper adivisory committee), S. 3681 (COVID air travel task force), S. 3729 (motor carrier safety grant relief), S. 3730 (registered traveler changes), and the Fulton, Furchtgott-Roth, Gruters,…
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May 13, 2020 – By using a funding formula based on decades-old political compromises and earmarks to distribute what is supposed to be a replacement for lost state revenues, from a variety of sources that vary by state, the House bill will result in some significant disparities between states.
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Yesterday, the American Public Transportation Association asked Congress to appropriate an additional $23.8 billion in coronavirus-related relief to mass transit providers across the country, in addition to the $25.0 billion provided in March 2020 by the CARES Act. “The $25 billion that was provided by the CARES Act was a…
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May 8, 2020 – At 8:30 a.m. this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the U.S. employment totals for April 2020. As expected, the news was grim.
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May 8, 2020 – The emergency discretionary appropriations contained in the four coronavirus-related bills enacted into law so far total $502 billion, of which $48.5 billion is under the Transportation-HUD Subcommittee.
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May 5, 2020 – If Congress uses the standard federal highway funding formula to distribute aid meant to replace dedicated state transportation revenues, they will produce similar inequities to those generated by the botched airport aid formula.
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