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This is a document prepared by Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation Robert Murray dated November 19, 1953 entitled “Federal Highway Policy” and transmitted by Murray to the White House with a cover letter on…
This is a one-page table showing total funds being rescinded by the Federal Highway Administration on July 1, 2020 on a state-by-state basis.
“Land Line Now” is the first daily news and information program designed specifically for America’s truck drivers. The show is broadcast nationwide each day on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s The Road Dog on Sirius XM…
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…
Jeff Davis, a senior analyst at the nonpartisan Eno Center for Transportation didn’t think that much is needed. Raising the tax five cents each of the next two years and a penny per year thereafter should be enough, he said. “The higher fuel taxes are the most logical way to stabilize the highway fund, he said. “Nothing comes close to the ease of implementation,” Davis said.
This is a White House press release dated September 9, 1959 announcing that President Eisenhower had just requested the first-ever bailout of the Highway Trust Fund from general revenues – a $359 million “repayable advance.”…
The documents from the Commerce Department and the Bureau of Public Roads ordering the first-ever limitations on the ability of states to obligate their highway contract authority, in October 1959.
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…
This is a PDF of the notes taken by the White House assistant staff secretary on the April 15, 1958 regular White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders. Topics included the possible veto of the…
These are notes taken by the White House Assistant Staff Secretary of the regular weekly White House meeting between the President, his senior staff, and the Republican leadership of Congress on March 4, 1958. In…
This is a draft bill sent by the Commerce Department to the Bureau of the Budget for legislative clearance on March 6, 1958 (together with draft cover letter to Congress) to waive application of the…
This is a PDF of the White House records of a Cabinet meeting held by President Eisenhower on January 24, 1958 that discussed Byrd Test funding delays and escalating cost […]
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