2019 Future Leaders Development Conference (LDC) Recap
June 14, 2019 – Highlights from Eno’s 2019 Future Leaders Development Conference, held last week in Washington, DC.
$326M in FY18 CRISI Grants Include Mobile to New Orleans Amtrak Restoration
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DOT Requests Applications for $293 Million in Port Improvement Funding
June 14, 2019 – This week, the U.S. Department of Transportation requested applications for $293 million in port infrastructure grant funding under a new program created by the 2019 Transportation Appropriations Act.
FY20 Starts Slowly in House; Transportation-HUD Spending at Rules Next Week
June 14, 2019 – The House of Representatives finally started considering general appropriations bills for fiscal year 2020 this week, but there were early snags when a small core of anti-domestic-spending Republicans forced the House to take 70 roll call votes on amendments over an 18-hour period.
House Appropriators Approve FY20 Homeland Funding
June 14, 2019 – The House Appropriations Committee on June 11 approved a $64 billion draft bill making appropriations for the Homeland Security Department for fiscal year 2020.
Capitol Hill Events – Week of June 17, 2019
Tuesday, June 18 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – Subcommittee on Security – subcommittee hearing on drone security, focusing on enhancing innovation and mitigating supply chain risks (witness list here) – 2:30 p.m., SD-562 Dirksen. Tuesday, June 18 – House Rules – full committee hearing on terms for House…
Amendments Filed to FY20 Transportation Appropriations with the House Rules Committee
June 14, 2019 – This is a list of all the transportation-related amendments filed with the House Rules Committee that may or may not be offered to the FY 2020 Transportation-HUD appropriations bill.
Perspective: Infrastructure and “Investment” Spending in the Big Budget Picture
June 13, 2019 – How much money does the federal government currently spend on “infrastructure”? It’s a question that needs to be answered in order to put calls for increased infrastructure spending in perspective.
House Appropriators OK FY20 USDOT Budget in Drama-Free Markup
June 7, 2019 – The House Appropriations Committee on June 4 approved a $87.7 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation, as part of an overall Transportation-Housing appropriations bill that passed by party-line vote of 29 yeas to 21 nays.
CBO Says Fair Value Accounting Would Greatly Increase Cost of TIFIA, WIFIA Loans
June 7, 2019 – A new report issued May 30 by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that if the federal government were to start using “fair value accounting” to estimate the “market risk” of federal loan programs, the cost to the government of making a TIFIA surface transportation loan would increase nearly fivefold – and the cost of making a loan under the new WIFIA water infrastructure loan program would increase twentyfive-fold.