Highway Trust Fund (HTF) Reference Page
The Highway Trust Fund Reference Page is intended to serve as a one-stop reference for information about the Highway Trust Fund and its ongoing financial crisis.
The Highway Trust Fund Reference Page is intended to serve as a one-stop reference for information about the Highway Trust Fund and its ongoing financial crisis.
August 1965 White House legislative strategy memos relating to highway beautification legislation.
April 1955 opposition research memo from the Democratic National Committee criticizing the “Clay Commission” Interstate highway plan submitted by President Eisenhower.
A series of three late November 1982 memos from DOT and OMB trying to refute the arguments that each agency made to President Reagan in the final Cabinet meetings to determine whether or not the…
A June 1961 memo to President Kennedy from the head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency transmitting the draft legislation to give permission for two or more states to establish joint planning organizations for…
Oral history given by former OMB Deputy Director Charles Zwick, who played an integral role in the creation of the Department of Transportation.
Internal White House summary of a proposed “New Federalism” initiative for President Reagan, dated January 1982, which would have turned back significant highway and mass transit spending (and their dedicated excise tax revenues) back to…
In October 1972, House and Senate negotiations over the biannual highway bill were breaking down over the issue of whether or not the Highway Trust Fund should be opened up to fund mass transit capital…
This week’s ETW Document of the Week is a letter sent from Rex Whitton, the head of the American Association of State Highway Officials, to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Harry F….
On January 21, 1915, the Congressional Joint Committee on Federal Aid in the Construction of Post Roads issued its final report to Congress. The report of the Joint Committee represented, by far, the largest assemblage…
Tables of contents of all four issues of Transportation Quarterly published by the Eno Foundation in calendar year 2003.
Tables of contents for all four issues of Transportation Quarterly published by the Eno Foundation in 2000.
