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States Pull Back on Transportation Improvements Over Uncertain Federal Highway Trust Fund Money

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CEG - Four states have canceled or delayed $780 million in transportation improvement projects and another nine say over $1.8 billion are at risk because of continued uncertainty over whether Congress will take action soon to fix the ailing Highway Trust Fund (HTF).The Washington, D.C.-based ...

Federal Highway Trust Fund Cash Dwindles for W. Va.

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Jonathan Mattise - ASSOCIATED PRESS - CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Federal cash for building and fixing West Virginia roads has diminished at more than twice the five-year national rate — a key factor as a governor-appointed panel considers ways to find another $1 billion-plus for the state’s ailing highways and bridges....

’Rising Stars’ Discuss Highway Trust Fund Financing, MAP-21 Reauthorization

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CEG - More than 50 “young guns” in the transportation design and construction industry took part in an intensive “boot camp” introduction to the federal legislative and regulatory processes, and then descended on Capitol Hill to press their members of Congress to fix the ...

AED: Highway Trust Fund Reform Proposal May Not Go Far Enough

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CEG - Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) President and CEO Brian P. McGuire released the following statement on the draft tax reform proposal released Feb. 26 by the House Ways ...

ARTBA to CONEXPO Attendees: Tell Congress to Fix the Highway Trust Fund

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CEG - With federal highway and bridge funding to the states in jeopardy later this year, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) is using the March 4-8 CONEXPO-CON/AGG trade show in Las Vegas—one of the largest gatherings of U.S. transportation design and construction prof...

ARTBA: Nation Faces “Painful Scenario” without New Highway Trust Funding

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CEG - Fixing the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) without generating any new revenue would require the equivalent of Congress passing and the president signing a 2013-level Murray-Ryan budget deal every year just to maintain current highway and transit program investment levels, ...

New Grassroots Advocacy App Helps Fix Highway Trust Fund

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CEG - The “Transportation Construction Advocate App,” or “TransCon App” unveiled by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) gives public and private-sector workers in the transportation design and construction industry a powerful, new tool to communicate ...

U.S. Secretary of Transportation and Key Members of Congress to Lead Highway Trust Fund Discussion

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CEG - On Tuesday, June 4 starting at 3:00 p.m. EST, Secretary Ray LaHood, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R.-Pa.) and Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall (D-W.Va.) will address over 400 transportation construction industry leading executives t...

ARTBA Asserts Highway Trust Fund Problems Are Political, Not Structural

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CEG - "The root of the federal Highway Trust Fund’s [HTF] revenue challenge is not an antiquated gas tax or alternative-fueled vehicles dominating the U.S. automobile fleet or improved fuel economy, but a more direct and obvious flaw: the federal motor fuels tax and other highway user fees have n...

ARTBA Calls for Changes in Highway Trust Fund

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CEG - Increase federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) revenue through user fees and excises, drastically cut federal highway and public transportation funding to the states, or significantly increase the federal deficit by borrowing the needed funds. These are the only options for Congress to address the fut...