FY 2018 BUILD Grant List
This document is a six-page PDF list of the fiscal 2018 BUILD grant recipients announced by USDOT on December 11, 2018 in alphabetical order (by state) with the project name, sponsor, grant amount, total project cost,…
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Cumulative BUILD (TIGER) Awards FY 2009-2018
This is a PDF file showing how much total grant money under the TIGER program (FY 2009-2016) and the BUILD grant program (FY 2017-2018) each state received. The first page shows total dollar amounts and…
1932 Treasury Letter Recommending First Gasoline Tax
This is a letter marked “CONFIDENTIAL” from Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills to Acting House Ways and Means chairman Charles L. Crisp dated February 16, 1932 recommending that Congress enact a new excise tax on…
Eno Center Releases Report on Proposed Chinese Railcar Ban
“The Implications of the Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars” concludes that until the federal government better understands the potential national security risks of using Chinese railcars in American transit systems, a one-year appropriations ban is…
Sept. 1978 Letter to US House Members from Transportation Stakeholders
This is a September 15, 1978 letter from various surface transportation stakeholder groups to all members of the US House of Representatives opposing an amendment to the highway bill to be offered by Budget Committee…
Sept. 1978 “Dear Colleague” Letter from House Public Works Against Giamo Amendment
This is a “Dear Colleague” letter to House members sent by members of the Public Works and Transportation Committee on September 19, 1978 in opposition to an amendment by Budget chairman Bob Giamo (D-CT) that…
1978 Conable-Gibbons Amendment to the Highway Bill
This PDF is a series of documents relating to a proposed amendment in the House Ways and Means Committee to the revenue title of the highway bill in 1978. Drafted (at the Department of Transportation’s…
1958 FAA Act – White House Enrolled Bill File
This is the enrolled bill file prepared by the Bureau of the Budget on the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. The file contains a summary of the bill prepared by BoB and letters from all…
Petroleum Product Tax Options for World War II
This is a February 1942 analysis by the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis of the pros and cons of a variety of potential excise tax increases on gasoline, fuel oil, lubricating oil, and other…
Federal Capital Revolving Fund Act of 2018
Draft legislation transmitted by the Office of Management and Budget to Congress in June 2018 creating a Federal Capital Revolving Fund to help the Appropriations Committees make large federal real estate purchases at once, to be…
Senate Manager’s Package of Amendments to H.R. 6147 (Second Minibus Appropriations, FY19)
This is a PDF of the text of all of the amendments adopted by the U.S. Senate on the evening of July 31, 2018 as part of a bipartisan “manager’s package” of amendments to H.R….
Shuster Infrastructure Proposal – July 23, 2018
This is the text of the 108-page infrastructure bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) on July 23, 2018.