Written comments for the record from 23 highway stakeholder groups critical of the idea of including a greenhouse gas metric in the Federal Highway Administration’s highway performance rule. Submitted to the docket August 19, 2016.
Letter signed by Senate Environment and Public Works chairman James Inhofe (R-OK) and five other Republican Senators filing public comments in opposition to the Federal Highway Administration’s consideration of possibly including metrics and measurements for…
Table showing the percentage shares of the TIGER program awarded to each state and territory over the FY 2009-2016 period, comparing those shares with the state/territory shares of U.S. population, U.S. gross domestic product (GDP),…
Internal White House memorandum dated November 17, 1955 summarizing a “Road Gang” luncheon panel discussion on what the outcome for the highway bill would be in the upcoming 1956 session of Congress.
Text of the bill S. 1122 (89th Congress) introduced by Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-NJ) on February 11, 1965 to create a new Cabinet-level Department of Transportation to include the Bureau of Public Roads, the…
This is a collection of memos to President Eisenhower discussing whether or not he should sign into law the 1958 highway bill.
This is a readout of the April 15, 1958 between President Eisenhower, his senior Cabinet and White House officials, and the senior Republican leaders of the House and Senate. Among other things, the group discussed…
November 1956 proposal from White House public works planning advisor John Bragdon for a comprehensive system of federal grants to state and local government to encourage long-range public works planning and the creation of what…
A September 1916 pamphlet containing the text of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, a summary thereof, the text of implementing regulations, and an article by the Secretary of Agriculture explaining the need for…
Congressional Record excerpt from June 29, 1916 featuring House of Representatives consideration of the conference report to accompany the Good Roads Act (H.R. 7617, 64th Congress).
Report of the committee of conference to accompany the bill H.R. 7617 (64th Congress), the Good Roads Act.
April 5, 1966 memo from Senate Public Works staff director Ron Linton to Senate Government Operations staff director Jim Calloway transmitting the Public Works staff analysis of the negative effects that the proposed Department of…