Week of July 13, 2015

Appropriations, Federal Budget, Federal Funding, Federal Governance,...

Sep 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

Highway Bill Success Will Make Appropriations Problem Harder

July 15, 2015 - Both the discretionary side of surface transportation spending (the annual appropriations bills funding the Department of Transportation) and the mandatory side of surface spending (the reauthorization bill that covers the Highway...

Aircraft, Airports, Appropriations, Aviation Safety, Federal Budget,...

Sep 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

House Committee Approves FY16 Homeland Appropriations Bill

July 15, 2015 - The House Appropriations Committee yesterday by a 32 to 17 vote gave its approval to the fiscal year 2016 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security.

Airlines, Aviation Safety, Federal Budget, Federal Governance, Highway Trust Fund, Homeland security

House HTF Extension Continues TSA User Fee Mismatch

September 9, 2015

Sep 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 15, 2015 - The House’s five-month Highway Trust Fund extension bill (H.R. 3038) pays for $3 billion of its...

Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Highway Trust Fund, Highways

House Passes 5-Month Surface Transportation Extension With $8 Billion HTF Bailout by Bipartisan 312-119 Margin

September 9, 2015

Sep 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 15, 2015 - The House of Representatives has passed, by a wide 312-119 vote, a bill (H.R. 3038) providing...

Federal Budget, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Highway Trust Fund, Highways, Public transit

Senate Begins Procedural Set-Up To Consider Surface Transportation Bill Next Week

September 9, 2015

Sep 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 15, 2015 - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has taken the first procedural steps towards starting debate on...

Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Fuel tax, Highway Trust Fund, State Governance

The State of Transportation Funding: A Realistic Examination of Pseudo-Federalism

July 10, 2015

Jul 10, 2015 | Elizabeth Bastian

In a recent article published in Innovation NewsBrief entitled “A Conservative Vision for the Future of the Highway Trust Fund,”...

Federal Governance, Highways, Homeland security, Public transit