Memo presented to President Johnson on October 31, 1966, summarizing the views of Administration officials on the enrolled bill S. 3488, ratifying (on behalf of the District of Columbia) the DC-Maryland-Virginia interstate compact creating the…
Section-by-section analysis of chairman Oberstar’s June 22, 2009 draft surface transportation reauthorization bill.
Chairman Oberstar’s draft surface transportation reauthorization bill dated June 22, 2009. This draft bill was approved by the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee but never went any further.
Undated section-by-section summary of a draft surface transportation reauthorization bill produced by the Department of Transportation but never released to the public.
Undated draft legislation from late in 2010 produced by USDOT and intended to serve as the Administration’s surface transportation reauthorization proposal. This language was never cleared by OMB and therefore never released to the public,…
September 1978 memos to President Carter from DOT, OMB and White House staff relating to the ongoing House-Senate conference negotiations on the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978, debating whether to veto the bill, how…
Memo presented to President Johnson on August 5 1968, expressing the views of the Administration on the enrolled bill H.R. 18188, the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1969.
Memo presented to President Johnson on October 21, 1967, expressing the views of the Administration on the enrolled bill H.R. 11456, the first-ever Department of Transportation Appropriations Act (this one for fiscal year 1968).
Originally published in Transportation Weekly in October 2007, this article by Jeff Davis examines how contract authority – the funding mechanism for most federal transportation construction spending – was created in 1922.
Memo presented to President Reagan on the enrolled bill H.R. 4974, the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1989.
Someone once asked me if all of the transportation policy history articles I have written for ETW were collected in one place. They were not, so now they are. Multi-Part Series: A Conversation With Alan Boyd, the First U.S. Secretary of Transportation Part 1 (February…
For over a quarter century, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) worked to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment. From its earliest days impacting the landmark Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, STPP was always on the vanguard of transportation reform in the United States.
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