Federal, state, and local governments all play a significant role in funding $300 billion in annual transportation spending. The federal government supplies important capital funding for highways, transit systems, airports, waterways, and ports while also operating the nation’s air traffic control system. State and local governments have an equally important task to invest in and operate their transportation networks and rely on a broad range of revenue sources, from general revenues and debt, to fuel taxes, fees, and tolls.
December 22, 2017 - Yesterday, the House and Senate passed legislation extending stopgap continuing appropriations through January 19, 2018, averting...
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December 20, 2017 - The tax bill is through, but the appropriations endgame remains. Here is today's news from Capitol...
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January 15, 2017 - This week, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee introduced legislation (H. J. Res. 124) that...
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January 15, 2017 - Today was the 50th anniversary of the deadliest highway bridge disaster in U.S. history - the...
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Monday, December 18 - House Rules - full committee hearing on H.R. 3312, systemic risk designation improvement, and H.R. 1,...
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December 8, 2017 - A potential government shutdown starting at midnight tonight has been averted with yesterday's passage of a...
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December 8, 2017 - Virginia has always restricted peak hour use of I-66 inside the Beltway to vehicles with two...
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December 6, 2017 - The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation have determined that the provision in...
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December 8, 2017 - The White House this week made it official and promised to release the Trump Administration's "infrastructure...
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Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...