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Highway Trust Fund Soon Tapped Out

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Earmark Hide And Seek
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Is Any Of The Stimulus For Construction Real?

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Lumber Jack replied to James G. McConnell's discussion 'Earmark Hide And Seek'
I understand that people don't like earmarks because of their inherent opaque nature to the public. But in my mind the fact that important projects like bridges constructions/repairs have to be sneaked into some unrelated bill as earmarks else…
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Highway Trust Fund Soon Tapped Out

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer convened a hearing today on the President Obama's appointment of Victor Mendez to be Federal Highway Administrator, but the controversy at the session was not about the qualifications of the nominee. Boxer announced, and Transportation Department spokesperson Jill Zuckman confirmed, that the Federal Highway Trust Fund will run out of cash sometime this August, before the end of the fiscal year, and in spite of an infusion last fall of…See More
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Earmark Hide And Seek

New House rules require every member to post appropriation earmarks he or she has requested on the representative's website so the information is available to the public. A few Congressional leaders proudly display the link to these details in a prominent position on their home pages, but many Representatives have buried the earmark link two or three pages deep on their sites, and called them things like "other issues" or "local appropriations" to keep the word "earmark" out of the conversation…See More
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Earmark Hide And Seek

New House rules require every member to post appropriation earmarks he or she has requested on the representative's website so the information is available to the public. A few Congressional leaders proudly display the link to these details in a prominent position on their home pages, but many Representatives have buried the earmark link two or three pages deep on their sites, and called them things like "other issues" or "local appropriations" to keep the word "earmark" out of the conversation…See More
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Is Any Of The Stimulus For Construction Real?

Conflicting Budget Resolutions Go To ConferenceLate Thursday afternoon the House passed its version of the five year budget resolution, and just before midnight Thursday the Senate passed its conflicting version. As far as the construction industry is concerned, the major conflict is the difference in approach to transportation infrastructure funding. The Senate version slashes over $72 billion from the amount budgeted by the House for surface transportation infrastructure construction over the…See More
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Earmarks Will Not Hold Up '09 Appropriations

Obama Will Sign '09 Appropriations Despite Earmarks



According to both Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and OMB Director Peter Orszag, speaking on the Sunday talk shows, President Obama will sign the appropriations legislation for fiscal 2009 Congress is expected to send him this week, after clearing the Senate and the conference committee, despite 8,330 earmarks costing about $7.7 billion out of the $410 billion appropriated, or a little less than 1.9% of the total expenditures authorized… Continue

Posted on March 2, 2009 at 2:25pm

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Finding Jobs To Bid

Navigating Recovery.gov



The federal government's recovery.gov website is actually becoming functional for those who want a centralized, sort of searchable site for seeking out projects to bid on. Here's how to do it:



Open the Recovery.gov home page by typing Recovery.gov into your Google search box. When the home page opens you will see a block on the lower right portion of the page headed "State Progress and Resources." Click on that block. Doing this will open a page… Continue

Posted on February 27, 2009 at 9:11pm

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