Sentences with phrase «highway funding bill»

The punitive damage provision in the massive highway funding bill, H.R. 3, also holds that any portion of a punitive damage award covered by the defendant's insurance will be included in the defendant's gross income.

Punitive damage payments would no longer be deductible from federal taxes if the version of a highway funding bill passed by the Senate Tuesday becomes law.

New highway funding bill could put some archeologists and environmental researchers in a jam.

A six - year highway funding bill passed by the House of Representatives last week would remove $ 564 million from New York's current federal transportation funding.

Democrats launch radio ad criticizing Rep. John Katko for lack of long - term highway funding bill

Not exact matches

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.

On Sunday, Senate Republican leaders blocked an amendment to a federal highway bill that would have ended PPFA's funding.

I worked hard on the highway bill to secure the federal funds for these important projects - and I'm thankful for the Governor's leadership on critical infrastructure projects like these.»

President Obama has put little political capital behind his transportation objectives; Congress has yet to hammer out a new transportation bill; the Highway Trust Fund is nearing bankruptcy; Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to take a position on Gateway, and hasn't shown much enthusiasm for transit in general, and Christie seemed to express his position on mass transit with the cancellation of ARC, which has been the subject of a very damaging report by the Government Accountability Office.

The bill would increase federal highway funding by about 15 percent, and Rep. Brian Higgins said that will mean that the state will be able to begin long - overdue highway repairs in Buffalo and elsewhere.

At 2:30 p.m., Schumer announces that the recently passed federal transportation bill included an additional $ 40 million in Highway Safety Improvement Program funding for New York state, Ithaca Commons, East State and Aurora streets, Ithaca.

Rep. John Katko asked a committee of House and Senate members Wednesday to restore $ 12 million in funding for Centro and billions for other public transit systems that were cut in a highway bill the House passed earlier this month.

The House approved a long - term highway bill that strips billions in public transportation funding from New York and six other Northeastern states.

Republican Congressman Richard Hanna is joining fellow New York Congressman Louise Slaughter in a push to restore federal funding for local public transit systems.The money would be cut in the new federal Highway bill.

There is no long - term bill that can pay for the Highway Trust Fund, which Katko said he would support.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday to restore public transportation aid for Northeastern states in the new highway bill, averting potential deep cuts in funding for Centro's bus service in Central New York.

That's what archeologists, wildlife biologists, and wetlands scientists who have gotten funding from a little - known transportation program will face with shrinking federal support if a massive highway bill approved by the U.S. Senate becomes law.

National: As President Obama signs the new five - year $ 305 billion FAST ACT highway bill into law, the «public private partnership» industry sees it as a mixed bag, increasing federal TIFIA infrastructure subsidies to private investors on the one hand, and allowing states to dip into National Highway Performance Program apportioned funds on the other if TIFIA funding is consthighway bill into law, the «public private partnership» industry sees it as a mixed bag, increasing federal TIFIA infrastructure subsidies to private investors on the one hand, and allowing states to dip into National Highway Performance Program apportioned funds on the other if TIFIA funding is constHighway Performance Program apportioned funds on the other if TIFIA funding is constrained.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that he will travel across the country beginning Monday, April 14th to showcase the importance of transportation investment, at a time when the nation's transportation bill is set to expire and the Highway Trust Fund is rapidly running out of funds.

The bill provides $ 530 million of contract authority, funded from the Highway Trust Fund, to fund the budgetary or subsidy costs of the Federal credit instruments between fiscal years 1999 - 2003: $ 80 million in fiscal year 1999; $ 90 million in fiscal year 2000; $ 110 million in fiscal year 2001; $ 120 million in fiscal year 2002; and $ 130 million in fiscal year 2Fund, to fund the budgetary or subsidy costs of the Federal credit instruments between fiscal years 1999 - 2003: $ 80 million in fiscal year 1999; $ 90 million in fiscal year 2000; $ 110 million in fiscal year 2001; $ 120 million in fiscal year 2002; and $ 130 million in fiscal year 2fund the budgetary or subsidy costs of the Federal credit instruments between fiscal years 1999 - 2003: $ 80 million in fiscal year 1999; $ 90 million in fiscal year 2000; $ 110 million in fiscal year 2001; $ 120 million in fiscal year 2002; and $ 130 million in fiscal year 2003.

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.

POLLY TROTTENBERG: In our world, transportation and highway - funding bills are the big things.

Dole issues another notice seeking data on automatic restraints Quoted without comment Study shows insurance incentive does not increase seat - belt use Motor vehicle crashes are a major cause of emergency room visits Study seeks ways to eliminate deaths in pole crashes House bill links highway funds to restraint programs NHTSA releases more results of crash tests on 1984 models

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

Just as highway funds were set to run out, Congress passed a highway bill and President Obama signed it into law July 31, 2015.

In the wake of federal congressional hearings on recalls by GM, Toyota, and Takata for safety defects, Representative Jan Schakowsky from Illinois has proposed a bill that would increase funding to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and would pressure manufacturers to improve auto safety.

In addition, a proposed bill in Congress would penalize states that fail to enact such a ban with a 25 percent cut in federal highway funding.

On July 30, 2015, the U.S. Senate passed a short - term highway and transit bill, which extends authority through October 29, 2015, but replenishes the Highway Trust Fund into Decembehighway and transit bill, which extends authority through October 29, 2015, but replenishes the Highway Trust Fund into DecembeHighway Trust Fund into December 2015.

Congress is trying to get into the act, too; last year Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.) introduced a bill that would strip states of some of their federal Highway Trust Fund money if they don't take action on the problem.

With 15 days left before the government's authority to spend money from the Highway Trust Fund expires, the House bill must still be reconciled with a similar Senate bill before it can be signed into law.