One day before President Donald Trump and Democratic Congressional leaders are scheduled to discuss ways to pay for a 2$ trillion infrastructure plan, Rep. Earl Blumenauer plans to introduce a bill to increase the motor fuels tax by 5 cents a year for the next five years and indexing it to inflation.
05-20-2019 黑料社区on May 10 submitted its comments in response to a request for stakeholder input from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure with regard to the Committee鈥檚 work on infrastructure this Congress.
05-11-2019 This week retiring House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released draft legislation outlining his vision for enhanced infrastructure investment. The draft legislation is designed to facilitate a process whereby the United States can recalibrate how it pays for infrastructure as it moves into the middle part of the 21st Century, while at the same time providing a mechanism to adequately fund such investment in the near-term as the process plays out. Although many stakeholders — including 黑料社区— object to certain provisions in the draft legislation, it nonetheless represents a important continuation of — and positive shift in — the discussion President Trump started when he released his own infrastructure proposal earlier this year.
07-25-2018 As 黑料社区members crisscrossed Capitol Hill to advocate for long-term, sustainable infrastructure funding, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said the Administration continues to evaluate nearly 16 funding mechanisms for boosting infrastructure revenues.
05-18-2018 Infrastructure is poised to become a top item on the 2018 legislative policy agenda with the White House announcing that it will issue guidelines for its long-awaited infrastructure plan before President Trump鈥檚 State of the Union address later this month.
01-03-2018 Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said that he won’t rule out raising the motor fuels tax as a means of increasing infrastructure revenues. Senator Thune’s comments came just days after White House officials told a group of moderate House lawmakers that they are considering a gas tax hike to help offset President Trump鈥檚 infrastructure proposal.
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