This file contains several documents relating to the Eisenhower Administration’s revised December 1955 Interstate highway funding proposal (after Congress had rejected the first proposal in July 1955).
This is House Document 95-284, President Carter’s message to Congress of January 26, 1978 transmitting his proposed highway and mass transit reauthorization bill.
This is a copy of the April 10, 2002 issue of Transportation Weekly that contained a history of federally earmarked highway projects.
This is a copy of the January 17, 2006 issue of Transportation Weekly that contained a complete attribution of the $6.9 billion in “above the line” earmarks of highway projects in the 2005 SAFETEA-LU law.
This is a 16-page confidential summary of the October 1954 hearings of the President’s Advisory Committee on a National Highway System (the “Clay Committee”) prepared by the committee’s staff director, Frank Turner.
This is a PDF of the stenographer’s transcript of the hearings held on October 7 and 8, 1954, by the President’s Advisory Committee on a National Highway Program. (The panel was often referred to as…
This PDF contains documents from the Eisenhower Library relating to the Cabinet meeting held September 30, 1955. This was a very unusual Cabinet meeting in that it occurred six days after President Eisenhower had a…
This is a PDF of the “memo for the record” by General John Stewart Bragdon, President Eisenhower’s public works advisor on the White House staff, recounting a meeting held on December 13, 1954 in which…
Tampa Bay, Florida is home to nearly 3 million residents and is the 18th largest metro region in the country, bigger than Denver, Charlotte, or Orlando. It ranks 22nd in terms of number of jobs,…
White House Statement of Administration Policy on H.R. 3566 (102nd Congress). H.R. 3566 was a revised version of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act (H.R. 2950) without the 5 cent per gallon gas tax increase…
Statement of Administration Policy from the White House detailing a veto threat against the Senate’s version of the 1991 surface transportation reauthorization (S. 1204). Dated June 11, 1991.
(Anyone wanting a complete history of ISTEA would be well advised to read this article by Richard Weingroff from Public Roads magazine in 2001.) The Administration Proposal The 1990 National Transportation Policy (“Moving America: New…
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