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July 24, 2017

Stories You May Have Missed

As a valued member, Transportation for America is dedicated to providing you pertinent information. This includes news articles to inform your work. Check out a list of stories you may have missed last week.

  • The Senate Appropriations Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development “THUD” Subcommittee is scheduled to markup the THUD appropriations bill on Tuesday and the full Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to markup the bill on Thursday. T4America will have more details on the bill’s provisions later this week. (Senate THUD Subcommittee, Senate Appropriations Committee)
  • Last week, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection passed comprehensive legislation related to automated vehicles. (Bloomberg)
  • The House Budget committee passed the FY 18 budget resolution out of committee last week on a party-line vote, but its prospects are uncertain in the full House because of an internal Republican divide on how much to cut non-defense spending. (The Hill)
  • Politico takes a deep dive into Republicans’ struggle to pass a budget that includes cuts to discretionary non-defense spending. (Politico)
  • The NY Times investigates where Trump’s infrastructure draft plan is and finds that it has stalled. (NY Times Note: NY Times has a limit of five free articles a month)
  • The Caltrans electrification project, which obtained a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) from the Trump administration after a period of uncertainty, broke ground last week. Service is expected to start in 2021. (Streetsblog SF)
  • An influential Colorado House Republican has proposed to tax bicycles to pay for infrastructure projects. This proposal comes after Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law a transportation-funding package that includes a tax on bicycles. (Colorado Politics)

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