House and Senate appropriations bills differ on transportation funding, setting stage for fiscal battle

Lawmakers are hustling to finish government funding bills before September 30th, but the substantial differences between the House of Representatives and Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) bills indicate the two chambers have a lot of work to do to reach a compromise on Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 spending legislation. The......

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New PROTECT program offers millions for improving infrastructure resilience

Government agencies—from state departments of transportation to Indian Tribes—can now apply for some of the $848 million in discretionary grant funding that was recently made available through the new Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Program, which aims to make infrastructure more resilient to climate change. The PROTECT program was one......

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FAA Computer System Outage Demonstrates Need for Robust Aviation Investment

The computer system failure at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that grounded all domestic flights last Wednesday emphasized the need for greater investment in the nation’s aviation infrastructure. The temporary outage of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which gives pilots safety information about flight conditions, resulted in the delay or cancelation of thousands......

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House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis holds capstone hearing ahead of new Congress

At what was very likely its final hearing, the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the Climate Crisis convened December 6th to review its accomplishments and discuss considerations for future action. Created at the start of the 116th Congress, the select committee was authorized to study and make recommendations on policies to solve the climate......

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Turns One Year Old

The landmark Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), for which ASCE strongly advocated in support of, marked its first year as law on November 15th. The five-year, $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, which garnered just enough bipartisan support to pass in Congress, is the country’s largest investment in infrastructure in nearly a century. Since its enactment......

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Lame-Duck Look Ahead: FY 2023 Appropriations

Lame Duck Look Ahead: FY 2023 Appropriations When Congress returns to Washington after the midterm elections, lawmakers will have a number of legislative items to tackle, including addressing Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 appropriations for federal agencies. While the House approved all 12 of their FY 23 appropriations bills and the Senate Appropriations Committee released all......

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Senate Appropriations Committee Releases FY 2023 Spending Bills

Late last week, amid a flurry of pre-recess activity, the Senate Committee on Appropriations released all 12 of their Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 spending bills. The nearly $1.7 trillion appropriations package includes $653 billion in non-defense discretionary spending, marking a 10.1% increase over FY 2022 levels, and $850 billion in defense discretionary spending, an 8.7%......

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Senate Committee Examines Transit and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Public transportation’s advancement through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) was the focus of a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on March 15th. Enacted in November, the bipartisan infrastructure law contains a whopping $91 billion for transit, including spending for development planning, State of Good Repair Grants,......

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