Freight

Supply Chain Logjam Is Subject of Another House Hearing

November 19, 2021

Nov 19, 2021 | Katie Donahue

November 19, 2021 - On November 17th, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing entitled “Industry and Labor...

FY22

CBO Warns $2.2 Billion in BBB's Transit, High-Speed Rail Funding Will Never Be Spent

November 19, 2021

Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff Davis

November 19, 2021 - As part of the process of scoring the omnibus budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 5376, a.k.a. Build...

USDOT Announces $983 Million in FY21 RAISE Grants

November 19, 2021

Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff Davis

November 19, 2021 - This morning, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the recipients of $983 million in multimodal RAISE...

Federal Funding, Infrastructure

How Much Will the Infrastructure Bill Really Add to the Deficit?

November 17, 2021

Nov 17, 2021 | Jeff Davis

November 17, 2021 - Scorekeeping rules required CBO to minimize the deficit increase to be caused by the infrastructure bill....

Federal Governance, USDOT

Senate Panel Approves DOT, FMC Nominees, but Sen. Scott Puts Hold on All DOT Noms

November 19, 2021

Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff Davis

On November 17, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved two more Presidential nominees for transportation positions – Chris...

Federal Funding, Highways

Highway "Donor States" R.I.P.

November 16, 2021

Nov 16, 2021 | Jeff Davis

November 16, 2021 - The infrastructure bill signed by the President yesterday means there are no more highway "donor states"...

Treasury Cites HTF Bailout As Determining Factor of Next Debt Limit Deadline

November 17, 2021

Nov 17, 2021 | Jeff Davis

November 16, 2021 - The Treasury Secretary said today that the $118 billion bailout contained in the infrastructure bill that...

Transit

COVID Aid Is Slowing Regular Mass Transit Spending

November 19, 2021

Nov 19, 2021 | Jeff Davis

November 19, 2021 - A look at recent issues of the Monthly Treasury Statement shows that the huge influx of...