Transportation Alternatives Program News Today

Ladies and gentlemen, before i begin i would like to ask you to join me in recognizing an Incredible Group of soldiers sailors, airman marines and coast guards behind me. They are the best at what they do do, whatever they do including putting on sayreceremonyies like this one. Thank you very much. [applause] and mr. Secretary, i couldnt help thinking as the National Anthem is played i would hazard a guess how many times you have heard it but today it was played for you and i hope you remember t...

Cspan, cspan2, cspan radio and cspan. Org. Anthony foxx testified about the highway Transportation Group and was joined at the Senate Environment and pubic works hearing on transportation and infrastructure funding. This is two hours and 15 minutes. The meeting will come to order. I say to my friend the Ranking Member that the whole right side back there is oklahoma. I came in last night and they were having a dinner i thought two or three people i knew gary rid ridley would be there, he always ...

Our system, all of it was customized and developed in the 50s and 60s. Weve replaced that system with those expenditures. But we still have over 50 applications that need to be replaced. But to show what weve been able to do that, that refund app got 200 million hits last year. 150 million returns across just 85 are processed electronically. That was not only not possible, it was inconceivable 15 years ago. We have made substantial strides. But the 300 million on the Affordable Care act are all ...

Theres much that we can learn from this 13year experience in how to take a more comprehensive approach, and to recognize while kinetic actions have a value all of their own certainly and thats blatantly obvious, nonkinetic actions do as well. We can do much better at that than what we have done. Thank you. General matt is my time is up, but do you have any you want to add . Very quickly senator i would point out we have to improve the process assuming there is a process. Ive been unable to ident...

Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak c...

It captures the imagination of Real Estate Developers and they start to build dense developments and bring amenities into communities that traditionally may not have them. I think the challenge for us is that right now if we look at the amount of money were putting into transit, i think the demand for it is going to increase substantially over the next several years because of shear population movements. Thats why i would urge a more robust investment in transit, first of all. And secondly urge ...

Department of Homeland Security into rain in a executive overreach. That is it. It is simple. There is no reason for democrats to block it. Politico reports that Senate Democrats intend to to block the homeland spending bill. One democrat who has spoken out against it is Senate Minority whip dick durbin. He called for a clean appropriation bill while speaking for the american advocates group, americas voice. You can watch tuesday at 2 30 eastern. As always, we will have coverage on cspan3. Next,...

30 programs from, i am sorry from 90 programs to 60 programs. So this will help folks navigate the transportation, financing and funding world. But it doesnt eliminate some of the specific key funding programs where innovative ideas were allowed to come to fruition. For example, there is a value pricing Pilot Grant Program which has funded the Treasure Island Management Study and the study in San Francisco. The funding for this program is eliminated under map 21, the program itself is not elimin...

Federal transportation funding will allow Niskayuna to study potential safety upgrades on Route 7 to assist in combating a series of fatal car accidents on the state road.

The Lufkin City Council unanimously approved funding for the City of Lufkin’s Sidewalk Improvement Project through the Texas Department of Transportation 2023 Transportation Alternatives Program.