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House votes to extend highway funding through end of year
The House passed Wednesday another short-term highway funding bill, as the current short-term patch is set to expire July 31.
July 15, 2015
Business
Congress, with time expiring, introduces another highway bill patch
The House introduced late Monday another short-term highway funding patch — the third since MAP-21’s expiration last year — that would extend funding through the end of the year. The current highway funding patch is set to expire July 31.
July 14, 2015
Business
Long-term highway bill, cleared by Senate committee, could have legs
The Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed a six-year, $275 billion called the DRIVE Act. The bill, first introduced this year, increases funding levels slightly from the two-year MAP-21 highway funding act passed in 2012.
June 25, 2015
Business
Highway funding safe for 60 more days as Congress clears latest stopgap measure
The Senate this weekend cleared the two-month highway funding patch passed last week by the U.S. House, securing solvency for the U.S. Highway Trust Fund until July 31. This is the 33rd such short-term measure in the last decade.
May 25, 2015
Business
House bill would up fuel taxes to pay for highways, tie rate to inflation
The U.S. House this week introduced a bill that would tie the current flat rate fuel tax to inflation as a long-term highway funding measure and appropriate an immediate $12 billion to the Highway Trust Fund to ensure short-term solvency.
April 16, 2015
Business
Toll roads trend in recent decade as new toll mileage well outpaces total system growth
Tolled Interstate mileage grew by about 17 percent in the 2003-2013 time frame, while total Interstate mileage grew by just over 2 percent.
April 9, 2015
Business
Driver pay reform included in DOT’s second iteration of Grow America highway bill
Chief among the bill’s highlights for the trucking industry is a measure of driver pay reform that would require drivers to be compensated for all on-duty hours not spent driving.
March 31, 2015
Voices
Fuel-tax hike indexed to inflation the wrong idea to fund roads
Vermont-based Michael Dudley throws a tomato at the notion that a tax hike is necessary to properly fund highways: “Stop allowing our government to waste our money!”
March 3, 2015
Business
Highway funding action hot of late: Foxx tells Congress ‘to hell with politics’; Lawmakers readying proposals
Sec. Foxx pleaded with members of the Senate this week to discontinue the trend of short-term highway funding patches in favor of long-term bills. Two more highway funding proposals were unveiled this week.
January 29, 2015
Business
Senate highway bill could be unveiled soon
Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) may soon unveil a highway funding bill that would direct money to the struggling Highway Trust Fund from taxes on companies’ overseas earnings, according to a report.
January 22, 2015
Business
President Obama skirts highway funding in State of the Union address
Departing from recent norms in his State of the Union addresses, President Barack Obama on Tuesday made only brief mention of infrastructure funding and no mention of issues related directly to trucking or transportation.
January 21, 2015
Business
Channeling Reagan, Congressmen push for increasing fuel taxes
Two Congressmen — and a cutout of President Ronald Reagan — pushed Wednesday for an increase to the tax on diesel and gasoline as a means to better fund U.S. Highways. They and President Obama, however, know Congressional action is unlikely.
December 4, 2014
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