Sentences with phrase «roads fund bill»

Omisore, however, explained that at the public hearing on the National Roads Fund Bill, the stakeholders were unanimous on the need to access a percentage of the funds for sustainable maintenance of roads from the pricing template of petroleum products.

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Pennsylvania Representative Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged his Republican colleagues to consider raising the gas tax as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund — which funds road, bridge and transit projects — solvent after 2021.

With the Senate voting on a provisional bill to fund the government for three more weeks, Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the road ahead for getting a final spending bill and work on immigration.

«What I believe here is that this gives the backing to the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road to stop payments, and as I've been reading in the news and hearing on the news is Amtrak, after the governor and our national representatives... have gotten together calling on Trump for federal funding, which I fully support, Amtrak came out and said that they have the money to do this fix,» said state Sen. Elaine Phillips, the bill's sponsor who also chairs the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee.

CITY HALL — The City Council is calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to drive up road resurfacing with an additional $ 103.1 million in funding.

As part of the recommendations in the report by the Senate Committee on Works on the National Roads Fund Establishment Bill 2017, a levy of N5 will be imposed on every litre of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and Automobile General Oil (diesel) imported or refined in the country.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration added $ 49 million in funding for infrastructure improvements in his 2015 budget, specifically to increase road resurfacing.

I urge members of Congress to support the funding for the transportation bill to bring much needed money to Erie County and to allow for the repair and reopening of roads like Tonawanda Creek Road.»

BOSTON — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined mayors from across the U.S. on Monday to demand increased federal transportation funding, promising a campaign to get Washington to spend more on bridges, roads and improvements to mass - transit systems.

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The $ 305 billion bill will provide funds for fixing roads and bridges and for the upkeep of mass transit.

CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a $ 84.67 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2018 Tuesday that includes money to pave 1,300 miles of road, adds 40,000 new classroom seats and boosts financial reserves to record levels in case of potential federal funding cuts from the Trump administration.

Adding to the positive vibes were several recent funding announcements: Kevin Frakes» PalmStar backing Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road and Bill Block's QED plus Luc Besson's EuropaCorp securing $ 600 million in financing with Scarlett Johanssen's «Lucy» grossing over $ 440 million worldwide.

The PlayMaker School, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will open in Los Angeles on September 7, with 60 students in 6th grade, and will operate as a «school within a school» at New Roads, an independent middle school.

The bill also provides states and communities with two years of steady funding to build the roads, bridges and transit systems they need.

This transportation bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21), will sustain our Highway Trust Fund and provide states and communities with two years of steady funding to build needed roads, bridges, and transit systems.

A painting commemorating the late IndyCar Series driver Justin Wilson by renowned motorsports artist Bill Patterson will be created during this weekend's Pirelli World Challenge / Mazda Road to Indy event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and then auctioned through Auction Cause to benefit The Wilson Children's Fund.

Bill Ackman has said of Icahn: «He's a bully who thought of me as road kill on the hedge fund highway.»

Starting an emergency savings fund now can have a big payoff down the road — it can help you get by in case of an unexpected repair or tax bill, for example.

House Bill 354 will take up to 100 million dollars per year for road maintenance from the state's General Fund, but only on years that see the General Fund grow more than 2 %.