Infrastructure
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House Transportation Plan Uses Elements that CRFB Highlighted
Here at CRFB we spend a lot of time reviewing responsible options to offset the cost of new bills and have provided many to lawmakers. So when current...
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Dynamic Infrastructure Estimate Gives Lawmakers Food for Thought
Three weeks from the deadline to deal with highway funding, a new report commissioned by the McGraw Hill Financial Global Institute gives Congress...
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One Month to Go for Highway Funding
In a newly released ticker, the Department of Transportation has shown that there is one month left for lawmakers to decide on funding for the Highway...
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Shoring Up Trust Funds Greatly Improves Debt
The main focus of CBO's long-term budget outlook is rightly on the unified budget numbers regarding spending, revenue, deficits, and debt. But it is...
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Senator Flake Publishes “Jurassic Pork”
What do earmarks and dinosaurs have in common? Both are extinct, but their skeletons still remain. Last week, Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) joined the...
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Why Lawmakers Were Able to Extend Highway Spending for Free
At the end of last month, lawmakers passed a two-month extension of the highway authorization bill with very little fuss. There was no discussion of...
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Congress Postpones Highway Decisions Until July
The President signed a two-month extension of the highway bill on Friday evening, postponing decisions about spending and the financing of the Highway...
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Time to Get to Work on a Highway Trust Fund Solution
Lawmakers have many potential options to address the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund. With the President expected to sign a two-month extension of...
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Four Takeaways from the Solutions Initiative Plans
The Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative III produced five different fiscal plans that would improve the current long-term budget outlook. We...
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Op-Ed: Paving the Way for Sustainable Highway Financing
RealClearPolicy | May 21, 2015 Congress faces yet another deadline, and yet again is set to stall. This time, there literally could be a bumpy road...
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Repairing How the Budget Treats the Highway Trust Fund
In our recently released plan, The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending, we propose a variety of measures to support the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)...
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CRFB's Plan to Repair the Highway Trust Fund
With the deadline for extending the surface transportation authorization just a few weeks away and Highway Trust Fund (HTF) bankruptcy approaching...