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FAA Reauthorization and the Essential Air Service: When a Cut is Actually an Increase

February 01, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

After 23 extensions, Congress is finally on the verge of reauthorizing the nation’s air program for the next four years. This would be... Read More

Counting on Speculative Oil and Gas Revenues to Fund our Transportation Needs is Fiscally Reckless

Counting on Speculative Oil and Gas Revenues to Fund our Transportation Needs is Fiscally Reckless Today the House Natural Resources Committee considered the energy portions of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (the... Read More

State of the Union Energy Proposals

January 25, 2012 | Energy

Oil subsidies must go, but we can’t stop there; Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program will continue to fail; increased... Read More

Outline of House’s Transportation Reauthorization Revealed

January 24, 2012 | Transportation & Infrastructure

An outline of the House majority’s new transportation reauthorization proposal — The American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act — was... Read More

Plenty of Money Moving Around Defense Authorization Bill

December 14, 2011 | National Security

Plenty of Money Moving Around Defense Authorization Bill Followers of the annual National Defense Authorization Act will recall the kerfuffle that occurred earlier this year after lawmakers in... Read More

This Time, Let the Ethanol Tax Break Expire

December 14, 2011 | Energy

The Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit, or VEETC, the largest subsidy to the ethanol industry, is set to expire on December 31st. Last... Read More

House Transportation Reauthorization Postponed as Deadline Approaches

December 01, 2011 | Transportation & Infrastructure

With the March 31, 2012 expiration of nation’s surface transportation legislation steadily approaching, House leaders informed... Read More

House Subcommittee Discusses Loan Guarantees

November 30, 2011 | Energy

The House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight met as part of an ongoing series of hearings... Read More

Loan Guarantee Program Up for Review

November 29, 2011 | Energy

The Department of Energy (DOE) Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program is coming up for some much needed scrutiny after two companies funded... Read More

November 4, 5:43 PM—The Latest on the Deficit Cutting Super Committee

November 14, 2011 | Budget & Tax

November 4, 2011-5:43 PM This way madness lies. Because the vast majority of the Super Committee’s activities have occurred behind... Read More

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February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as... Read More