COVID-19 Relief Package Includes Win for Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund
March 27, 2020
The nation’s ports got a little love in the recently passed CARES Act, the colossal stimulus package that provides COVID-19 relief. In this legislation is a long-time ASCE priority: a provision that would unlock the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) and help ports that need dredging work. ASCE strongly advocated for the bipartisan Full Utilization......
Success: House Passes the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act
October 29, 2019
This week, the House passed H.R. 2440, the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act, by a vote of 296 – 109. ASCE endorsed H.R. 2440 earlier this year, and this bill was one of our 2019 legislative fly-in priorities. The passage of H.R. 2440 would not have been possible without the incredible......
House T&I Committee Examines How to Build a 21st Century Infrastructure
February 02, 2017
Yesterday the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee held a hearing titled “Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America.” It was the Committee’s first hearing in the 115th Congress and came on the heels of both President Trump’s pledge to focus on infrastructure and a trillion dollar infrastructure investment blueprint previewed by Senate Democrats last week. The......