infrastructure
Transportation secretary to promote Obama proposal on four-day tour
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is embarking on a four-day bus tour starting Feb. 17 to highlight the importance of investing in America’s infrastructure, as well as to encourage Congress to act on a long-term transportation infrastructure bill. According to the… Keep Reading
DOT releases infrastructure analysis
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt unveiled “Beyond Traffic,” a forward-looking infrastructure analysis from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The analysis is “offered to the public as a draft to ignite a national conversation about the… Keep Reading
Obama proposes six-year, $478 billion infrastructure budget
President Barack Obama proposed a 14 percent tax on overseas profits that would raise $238 billion over six years and create a $478 billion infrastructure budget, the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association reports. “This transition tax would mean that… Keep Reading
Transportation secretary calls for long-term bill in committee hearing
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx met with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Jan. 28, calling once again for a multi-year highway bill. According to The Hill, Foxx said short-term extensions are eroding states’ ability to commit to road… Keep Reading
Proposed bill would fund Highway Trust Fund for six years
Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) filed legislation that would both rebuild U.S. infrastructure and reform the corporate tax code. Delaney's plan, the Infrastructure and Global Tax Competitiveness Act, uses repatriated revenue to increase infrastructure investment by imposing a mandatory deemed repatriation… Keep Reading
A national audience
About 12 million people watch the television news magazine 60 Minutes each week. So, when yesterday's program led off with a report about America's aging and crumbling roads and bridges, viewers heard in 15 minutes a message our industry has… Keep Reading
LaHood weighs in on highway funding at Cat event
Built for it. Caterpillar’s new slogan raises a number of questions: Are we built to handle the new highway bill? Are we built to grow, despite the current depletion in government funding? These are questions Ray LaHood, former secretary of… Keep Reading
Ever-increasing demand
In his personal blog, The Gates Notes, Microsoft founder Bill Gates cites some incredible statistics. Perhaps the most amazing is that China has used more cement (much more) in the last three years than the United States used in the… Keep Reading
Case takes Dire States tour to Washington
Case Construction Equipment took its Dire States tour to Washington, D.C., for Infrastructure Week 2014, a series of events designed to explore emerging solutions, innovative approaches and best practices being developed nationwide to modernize aging infrastructure. “Enacting long-term federal funding… Keep Reading
