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Senate Finance Committee Discussing Highway Patch
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee is beginning a markup of a short-term patch to the Highway Trust Fund, providing funding through the end of the year...
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Why Lawmakers Should Fix the Budgetary Treatment of the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreContinuing our series of transportation-focused blogs, this blog discusses the budgetary treatment of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). While most of the...
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CBO Releases Score of Postal Reform Act
Read moreCBO published its score of the Postal Reform Act of 2013 (H.R. 2748), a bill introduced by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), on...
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Finance Committee Considers Short Term Highway Extension
Read moreAs we've been writing about various ways to improve the state of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), the Senate Finance Committee has been discussing...
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Restoring Highway Solvency by Reducing Spending
Read moreWe released a new paper, Trust or Bust: Fixing the Highway Trust Fund, which showed the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) faces a $170 billion shortfall over...
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Restoring Highway Solvency by Increasing Current Revenue
Read moreWithout a fix soon, the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) will run out of money this summer, slowing down infrastructure projects across the nation. Our recent...
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CRFB to Conferees: Care for Veterans but be Fiscally Responsible
Read moreBoth the House and Senate have passed bills reforming the VA, and a conference committee must now meet to hammer out differences between the two bills...
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Murphy-Corker: A Responsible Solution for Highways and an Irresponsible One for Tax Extenders
Read moreSenators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Bob Corker (R-TN) announced a proposal this week to close the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) shortfall by increasing the...
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Trust or Bust: Fixing the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreUpdate: After publication we wrote a series of blogs providing options for offsets or to bring spending and revenue in line. As well in May 2015 we...
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CBO Finds House VA Bill Could Cost More, Does Cost Less Than Senate Bill
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office today released a preliminary analysis of several sections of the House VA reform bill. Like the Senate bill that we...
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Paying for A Fix to the VA Health System
Read moreNow that both chambers of Congress have passed bills aimed at improving the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, they will need...