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Date!
Sept. 24,
2002
Highway
Users Seminar
"Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Transportation
Challenges Facing State and Local Decision
Makers" is a seminar that will
be hosted by The Highway Users on Tuesday, Sept. 24 in
Washington, D.C. The seminar will be held at the Hamilton
Crowne Plaza at 14th and K Streets in Washington, D.C.
National, state and local officials have been invited
to participate in panels that include: "Money: Will There Be
Enough? How Can We Get More? Who Should Control It?"; "Setting
Transportation Priorities"; "Improving Transportation
Performance." An impressive group of leading authorities have
accepted positions on the panels.
More details will be announced via email in the next
few weeks. Registration fees are being finalized now. Sign up
early for discounted fees. |
American Highway Users
Alliance
The united voice
of the transportation community on highway safety and
mobility.
A nonprofit
advocacy organization representing nearly 350 national trade
associations, corporations, small businesses, and state and local
nonprofit organizations that represent over 45 million highway
users.
1776
Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 500
Washington, D.C.
20036
202.857.1200 fax
202.857.1220
www.highways.org
©
Copyright 2002. |
SAFETY, CONGESTION MUST
BE IMPROVED,
HIGHWAY USERS TESTIMONY STATES
 Highway Users Chairman Mike Toohey, Director, Government
Relations, Ashland Inc., told the House Highways and Transit
Subcommittee that the nation needs a well-funded federal highway
program to improve safety, reduce congestion, enhance air quality
and keep American jobs and enterprises competitive in a global
economy. Testimony
and more...
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 RABA Rolls
Forward:
Funding Outlook Improves
On May 14 the
U.S. House of Representatives voted 410 to 5 to provide an
additional $4.4 in budget authority and $1.118 billion in outlays
for the FY 2003 highway appropriation. This restores the highway
program to the $27.7 billion guaranteed under TEA21. For a full
update on funding, click here. |
 Energy Bills Clear House and Senate:
Can They Be Reconciled?
The U.S. Senate
passed its energy bill by a vote of 88 to 11 on April 25, almost a
year after the House passed its bill by a vote of 240 to 189... So
all that needs to be done is to appoint a conference committee to
work out the compromise and have a signing ceremony. As the
Washington pundit John McLaughlin would say - WRONG! Full
story... |
 Federal
Officials Address
Upcoming TEA21 Reauthorization
Maintaining the
budgetary firewalls in TEA21, streamlining the environmental review
process and restoring the $4.4 billion in highway investments were among
the issues that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and
Department of Transportation (DOT) Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson
addressed at the last Highway Users Executive Committe Dinner and
Meeting.
Find
out more about full remarks here. |
 AB
1058 Campaign Rages On
Assembly Bill
1058 (AB 1058) gives the California Air Resources Board virtually
unlimited authority to regulate greenhouse gases and allows the
board to impose restrictions, taxes, fees and reduced speed limits
on drivers and their vehicles. Click here
for full details.
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