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American Architects Stiffed By GSA
Started Jul. 3, 2009
Highway Trust Fund Soon Tapped Out
Started Jun. 2, 2009
HUD Monetizes New Home Buyer Tax Credit
Started Jun. 1, 2009
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If you have ever served in the military of the United States, you are undoubtedly familiar with the acronym SNAFU, and you probably know both the polite and not so polite phrases those initials stand for. It's difficult to describe this situation in…
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer convened a hearing today on the President Obama's appointment of Victor Mendez to be Federal Highway Administrator, but the controversy at the session was not about the qualifications of the…
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced last Friday at the spring board of directors meeting of the National Association of Homebuilders that HUD will permit first time home purchasers to apply the $8,000 tax credit enacted i…
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An article in today's Washington Post by Alec MacGillis details Congressional beefs regarding the lack of information about stimulus spending on the O…
Emblematic of the difficulties facing any timely reauthorization of the federal highway trust fund, Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller and Commerce Surface Transportation Subcommittee Chairman Frank Lautenberg have introduced a bill calling fo…
President Obama held an hour long meeting with Congressional Democrats Tuesday to discuss the lack of progress of energy and climate change policy legislation through the Henry Waxman's House Energy and Commerce Committee. Variously styled as "clean…
Competing and conflicting bills aimed at beefing up the safety of our mostly computer controlled power generation and distribution facilities in the United States is being discussed in the House Homeland Security Committee, the Senate Homeland Secur…
The Navajo Nation planned to build a 1,500 megawatt coal fired power plant on its reservation in New Mexico, and expected to earn $50 million per year from sales of electric power produced by the new facility. Earlier this week the Obama administrat…
Meetings of the House/Senate Conference Committee on the budget resolution officially began this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Washington, D. C. time. Staffers from both houses have been working on the details of the bill over the last two weeks, and legis…
US Housing Policy Favors Rent Checks Over Construction Investment
In a speech to the annual conference of the National Low Income Housing Coalition in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announced that the Obama administration'…
Department of Energy construction projects funded by grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and soon, presumably, all federally funded construction under the Obama administration, will require compliance with the 2009 International…
Have you looked at the list of projects, for example, with regards to lighting? This stuff looks more filled with bacon than a BLT. Of course I want to see something "fix" our economy, but the political gaming that is the Stimulus nauseates me.
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In a speech today at the Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., President Obama stood next to Vice President Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and spoke about the early successes of infrastructure appropriations in stimulating…
New House rules require every member to post appropriation earmarks he or she has requested on the representative's website so the information is available to the public. A few Congressional leaders proudly display the link to these details in a pro…
Lets see. We have had bailout after bailout with little to no effect on the economy. We have had trillions in "stimulus" spending; most of which is just spending and not stimulus. And now we have trillions more in regular budget increases. Sorry, bu…
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Earmarks Will Not Hold Up '09 Appropriations
Obama Will Sign '09 Appropriations Despite Earmarks
According to both Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and OMB Director Peter Orszag, speaking on the Sunday talk shows, President Obama will sign the appropriations legislation for fiscal 2009 Congress is expected to send him this week, after clearing the Senate and the conference committee, despite 8,330 earmarks costing about $7.7 billion out of the $410 billion appropriated, or a little less than 1.9% of the total expenditures authorized in the bil… Continue
According to both Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and OMB Director Peter Orszag, speaking on the Sunday talk shows, President Obama will sign the appropriations legislation for fiscal 2009 Congress is expected to send him this week, after clearing the Senate and the conference committee, despite 8,330 earmarks costing about $7.7 billion out of the $410 billion appropriated, or a little less than 1.9% of the total expenditures authorized in the bil… Continue
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 10:26am — 1 Comment
Finding Jobs To Bid
Navigating Recovery.gov
The federal government's recovery.gov website is actually becoming functional for those who want a centralized, sort of searchable site for seeking out projects to bid on. Here's how to do it:
Open the Recovery.gov home page by typing Recovery.gov into your Google search box. When the home page opens you will see a block on the lower right portion of the page headed "State Progress and Resources." Click on that block. Doing this will open a page which has one blue link… Continue
The federal government's recovery.gov website is actually becoming functional for those who want a centralized, sort of searchable site for seeking out projects to bid on. Here's how to do it:
Open the Recovery.gov home page by typing Recovery.gov into your Google search box. When the home page opens you will see a block on the lower right portion of the page headed "State Progress and Resources." Click on that block. Doing this will open a page which has one blue link… Continue
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 2:19pm —
Budget Documents Encouraging For Construction
Fiscal '09 Budget Passes House
On a vote of 245 in favor and 178 opposed, the $410 billion fiscal year 2009 omnibus appropriations bill passed the House February 25. The Senate has to vote on the bill next week because the continuing resolution funding federal government operations at fiscal 2008 levels expires March 6. Unless the Senate passes the omnibus before that deadline, another continuing resolution would be necessary to avoid a government shutdown.
This appropriation for fiscal 2009 i… Continue
On a vote of 245 in favor and 178 opposed, the $410 billion fiscal year 2009 omnibus appropriations bill passed the House February 25. The Senate has to vote on the bill next week because the continuing resolution funding federal government operations at fiscal 2008 levels expires March 6. Unless the Senate passes the omnibus before that deadline, another continuing resolution would be necessary to avoid a government shutdown.
This appropriation for fiscal 2009 i… Continue
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 7:23pm — 7 Comments
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