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• Send Congress a Message About Infrastructure, Job Needs

  Posted On: March 09, 2012

  "With continued high unemployment—combined with the loss of construction sector jobs—the need for strong surface transportation legislation has never been more important."

  Not to mention that every item delivered to your door has traveled on a road or highway.

  It's hard to argue with organizers of the second annual Rally ...

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• Senate Committee Clears Highway Bill

  Posted On: November 09, 2011

   According to media reports today, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st  Century Act, or MAP-21.

   

  The bill reauthorizes the federal-aid highway program at current funding levels plus inflation for two fiscal years.

   

  Says Associated Press reports:

   

  "The ...

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• MAP-21 Offers Two-Year Highway Reauthorization

  Posted On: November 07, 2011

  Last week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released the text of its two-year highway authorization bill.

  Called "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century" or MAP-21, the bill is a bipartisan effort of Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), James Inhofe (R-OK), Max Baucus (D-MT), and David Vitter (R-LA)....

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• President Obama Urges Congress to Put Construction Workers Back on the Job

  Posted On: November 03, 2011

   

  Using Washington, D.C.’s Key Bridge as a backdrop, yesterday President Obama urged Congress to pass the transportation piece of the American Jobs Act, which will make an immediate investment of $50 billion in our nation’s transportation infrastructure and a $10 billion investment to create a bipartisan National Infrastructure Bank.

  Together, ...

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• Obama Infrastucture Speech Keys on Deficient Bridge

  Posted On: November 02, 2011

  The Key Bridge is the backdrop for President Obama's remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure piece of the $447 billion American Jobs Act.

  The speech is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. EDT.

  The Key Bridge was one of 215 bridges found to be structurally deficient in the Washington area, according ...

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• Will "The Great Regression" Continue?

  Posted On: October 27, 2011

  There was an interesting guest blog yesterday on CNBC yesterday about the compelling need for infrastructure investment. “America is in the midst of physical decline. Decades of infrastructure neglect are eroding centuries of economic progress. Call it: The Great Regression.” So states award-winning journalist and author Dan McNichol in the ...

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• Stimulus Spending Continues To Decline In September

  Posted On: October 20, 2011

  Highway spending from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) totaled $415 million in September, a 28.7 percent decline from the August spending rate and a 67 percent decline from last year’s levels, according to a PCA report. Through September approximately 81 percent of stimulus highway funds have been dispersed, ...

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• Transportation Secretary To Call For Funding At AASHTO

  Posted On: October 17, 2011

  U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will continue to call for Congress to pass the transportation-related aspects of President Obama’s American Jobs Act when he delivers the keynote address today at the annual meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) in Detroit. During a plenary session ...

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• National Infrastructure Bank is DOA In House

  Posted On: October 13, 2011

  There was an ostensible hearing on President Obama’s plan for a national infrastructure bank yesterday by the House Transportation Committee. We use the word “ostensible” because the chairman of the committee, Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), had decided prior to the hearings that the plan was not acceptable. “A national infrastructure ...

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• Hearings This Week On Infrastructure Bank

  Posted On: October 10, 2011

  Do we need a federal infrastructure bank, or should it be left to the states? That is one of the questions the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will address on Wednesday when it holds hearings to consider President Obama's proposal to create a national infrastructure bank, according to a report ...

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