Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx chaired a virtual town hall meeting, entitled Moving from Uncertainty to Long-Term Transportation Investment, on August 6, 2014. The town hall was open to the general public, as well as business leaders, transportation advocates, and state and local government officials. Secretary Foxx discussed the United States Department of Transportation’s (US DOT) vision for the future of transportation, as well as answered questions from attendees about transportation policy.
In his opening remarks, and throughout the question and answer ...
Congress passed a bill (HR 5021) to provide a short-term funding patch for the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), just one day before the United States Department of Transportation was scheduled to begin slowing reimbursements to states for eligible highway, bridge, and mass transit projects. A failure to act by Congress had the potential to slow-down or stop any number of transportation construction projects across the country in the midst of the construction season.
After volleying the bill back and forth between the chambers over the course of this week, Congress passed a final bill that ...
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