Table showing the amount of highway contract authority each state had on-hand at the end of FY 2015 and potentially subject to the rescission language contained in the Senate’s version of the FY 2017 Transportation-HUD…
PDF document containing seven tables explaining the draft FY 2017 Transportation-HUD appropriations bill approved in a House subcommittee on May 18, 2016.
The following is an adaptation of information from a table in the Congressional Record of May 8, 1916 indicaiting how the Senate roads bill would distribute an apportionment of $25 million via formula and comparing…
Records of the April 1, 1966 Cabinet meeting convened by President Johnson to discuss the need to reduce federal expenditures to fight inflation. At the meeting, Johnson ordered all federal agencies to try to find…
Section-by-section analysis provided by the Department of Transportation to Congress of the Bush Administration’s proposed Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1991.
Text of the George H.W. Bush Administration’s proposed Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 1991, as introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 1351. The bill proposed the creation of a 150,000-mile National Highway System…
(This only covers information about the law itself and actions taken after its enactment on December 4, 2015. All information about the process by which the FAST Act was enacted into law is on our…
Fiscal Year 2016 Funding Resources Provided by the FAST Act. Organized into five areas: – Highway Formula Funding – Highway Discretionary Funding – Mass Transit Formula Funding – Mass Transit Discretionary Funding – Other FAST…
This information is arranged into five roughly chronological areas: – Congressional hearings on MAP-21 reauthorization. – The Administration’s GROW AMERICA proposal. – The Senate’s DRIVE Act. – The House’s STRR Act. – The conference agreement…
March 3, 1959 report to Congress by the Commerce Department pursuant to section 117 of the Federal-aid Highway Act of 1956, which required a “full and complete investigation and study for the purpose of deter-…
Undated memo from Commerce Under Secretary Alan Boyd to the White House received on February 2, 1966 (but possibly written or send earlier) proposing possible changes in the legal framework for transportation rate regulation to…
Report No. 12 of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate the Executive Agencies of the Government (prepared by the Brookings Institution). This report recommended that federal agencies responsible for the promotion of transportation be consolidated,…