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Senate committee passes transportation appropriations bill; negotiations with House on the horizon

6 Jun 2014 | Posted by Steve Davis | 0 Comments | Appropriations, Collins, murray, senate, THUD

The annual transportation (and housing) appropriations bill adopted Thursday by Senate appropriators contains some good news for transportation. But as in years past, it provides more money than the House’s version, setting the stage for contentious negotiations that could erase gains for key programs — especially competitive grants and new transit construction. Senate appropriators also noted that if the trust fund goes bankrupt, as it is projected to do as soon as next month, there won’t be any money to appropriate.

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Key Senate committee recognizes the importance of passenger rail, TIGER, transit and repairing our nation’s bridges

28 Jun 2013 | Posted by Steve Davis | 0 Comments | amtrak, Appropriations, bridge repair, Collins, murray, passenger rail, senate, The Fix We're In For, THUD, TIGER

Less than a week after the release of The Fix We’re In For — our report on the nation’s bridges showing that one in nine US bridges are structurally deficient — a key Senate committee passed a yearly funding bill that provides new money for repairing these deficient bridges across the country.

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What does the FREIGHT Act really mean for our freight and ports?

23 Jul 2010 | Posted by Steve Davis | 0 Comments | featured, freight, lautenberg, murray, senate, senator

The new FREIGHT Act introduced by Senators Lautenberg, Murray and Cantwell would create a truly multimodal national freight program for the first time in the U.S. It recognizes that our freight system should move our goods from coast to coast while also being part of the solution for many of our most pressing problems: air quality, dangerous emissions, oil dependence, and congestion on our highways and interstates.