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.
Series of memos and letters presented to President Reagan on January 6, 1983 expressing the views of the Administration on...
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December 15, 1981 memo from Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis to the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs advocating a revenue increase...
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Early iteration of the first Reagan Administration federalism plan - this one contemplated turning all non-Interstate highway programs and airport...
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October 29, 1981 memo from Greg Ballantine, Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary (Tax Analysis) to Secretary Regan discussing the philosophical justifications...
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Memo from Roger Porter, CCEA coordinator, to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan regarding the October 20, 1981 meeting of the CCEA...
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May 6, 1987 statements in the Congressional Record by Senators Inouye and Stevens about their bill S. 1159, to establish...
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November 1982 Congressional Budget Office staff working paper.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation prepared this 42-page pamphlet to explain the provisions of the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency...
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The joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the 1998 TEA21 bill contained multiple inaccuracies and omissions because it...
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The TEA21 law was enacted on June 9, 1998 but was almost immediately altered by significant corrections and amendments enacted...
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The TEA21 law was enacted on June 9, 1998 but was almost immediately altered by significant corrections and amendments enacted...
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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,...