Tag Archive for: funding and finance

INVEST Act Transportation Funding Table – As Passed by the House

This PDF file is a two-page table showing all funding authorizations made by the INVEST in America Act (H.R. 3684), as passed by the House of Representatives on July 1, 2021.

FY22 DOT Budget Request Summary Table

The attached four-page PDF file is an account-level summary of the fiscal 2022 budget request for the US Department of Transportation, compared with the enacted appropriations levels for the previous five fiscal years.

Final FY 2021 USDOT Appropriations Account-Level Table

This 4-page PDF is a table showing all of the account-level appropriations in the final fiscal 2021 Transportation Appropriations Act, compared with earlier iterations of the bill and with previous years.

Stakeholder Quotes from 1959 House Gas Tax Hearings

The House Ways and Means Committee held three days of hearings in July 1959 on President Eisenhower’s proposed 1.5 cent gasoline and diesel tax increase, requested in order to keep the Highway Trust Fund from…

1959 Eisenhower Administration Proposed Motor Fuel Increase Legislation

This is the transmission from the Commerce Department on April 3, 1959 of the Eisenhower Administration’s proposed legislation increasing motor fuels excise taxes and also transferring tax receipts on aviation gasoline from the Highway Trust…

December 1, 1958 White House Budget Recommendation for Gas Tax Increase

This is a memo dated December 1, 1958 within the White House Bureau of the Budget outlining the Bureau’s recommendation to increase federal gasoline and diesel excise taxes by 50 percent (from 3.0 cents per…

1959 Highway Trust Fund Revenue Bonding Proposal

This is a PDF file containing documents relating to the 1959 proposal to finance a shortfall in Highway Trust Fund revenues by the issuance of special revenue bonds, outside the regular Treasury Department borrowing, that…

Voters Approved $40.9 Billion for Transportation in 2018: Eno Analysis

Eno’s new issue brief examines the transportation ballot measures considered by voters last year